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m_pMyThread = AfxBeginThread( MyThreadFn, this )

m_pMyThread = AfxBeginThread( MyThreadFn, this, 0, 0, CREATE_SUSPENDED, NULL );
if( m_pMyThread )
{
    m_pMyThread->m_bAutoDelete = FALSE;
    m_pMyThread->ResumeThread();
}

DWORD dwWaitResult;
BOOL bQuit = FALSE;
while( !bQuit )
{
    dwWaitResult = ::MsgWaitForMultipleObjects( 1, &m_pMyThread->m_hThread, FALSE, INFINITE, QS_ALLINPUT );
    switch( dwWaitResult )
    {
        case WAIT_OBJECT_0:
            bQuit = TRUE;
            break;
            
        case WAIT_OBJECT_0 + 1:
        {
            MSG msg;
            while( ::PeekMessage( &msg, NULL, 0, 0, PM_REMOVE ) )
            {
                ::DispatchMessage( &msg );
            }
        }
        break;
            
        case WAIT_FAILED:
        {
            CString msg;
            msg.Format( "Wait failed. Error code 0x%x.\n", GetLastError() );
            ::OutputDebugString( msg );
            bQuit = TRUE;
        }
        break;
        
        default:
        {
            CString msg;
            msg.Format( "Unexpected wait result: 0x%x.\n", dwWaitResult );
            ::OutputDebugString( msg );
            bQuit = TRUE;
        }
        break;
    }
}
delete m_pMyThread;
m_pMyThread = NULL;

enum
{
    SuccessIndex,
    ErrorIndex,
    WinMsgIndex //Index returned by MsgWaitFor... in case of a message, this is also the number of events in the array
};
HANDLE m_hThreadStartEvents[WinMsgIndex];

m_hThreadStartEvents[SuccessIndex] = ::CreateEvent( NULL, TRUE, FALSE, NULL );
m_hThreadStartEvents[ErrorIndex] = ::CreateEvent( NULL, TRUE, FALSE, NULL );

::CloseHandle( m_hThreadStartEvents[SuccessIndex] );
::CloseHandle( m_hThreadStartEvents[ErrorIndex] );

dwWaitResult = ::MsgWaitForMultipleObjects( WinMsgIndex, m_hThreadStartEvents, FALSE, INFINITE, QS_ALLINPUT );

case SuccessIndex:
    // Do whatever needs to be done if the thread started successfully
    break;
    
case ErrorIndex:
    // Do whatever needs to be done if the thread failed somehow
    break;
    
case WinMsgIndex:
    // We now have messages in the threads message queue to process
    // How this is done is shown above
    break;

while( !m_bStopThread )
{
    ....
    ....
}

with probably too much time to spare

DVD dvd;
CHAPTER *chapter;
chapter = dvd.AddChapter();
chapter.AddLyrics("This is line 1");
chapter.AddLyrics("This is line 2");
// or
chapter.AddLyrics("This is line 1\nThis is line 2");

"The pointy end goes in the other man." - Antonio Banderas (Zorro, 1998)