Using std::thread in an object-oriented fashion

If you have been looking for the C++ thread class that looks similar to the Thread classes in Java or Qt threads, I'm sure you will find this interesting:

#include <iostream>
#include <thread>
using namespace std;

class Thread {
private:
      thread *pThread;
      bool stopped;
      void run();
public:
      Thread();
      ~Thread();

      void start();
      void stop();
      void join();
      void detach();
};

This is a wrapper class that works as a convenience class for the C++ thread support library in this book. The Thread::run() method is our user-defined thread procedure. As I don't want the client code to invoke the Thread::run() method directly, I have declared the run method private. In order to start the thread, the client code has to invoke the start method on the thread object.

The corresponding Thread.cpp source file looks like this:

#include "Thread.h"

Thread::Thread() {
     pThread = NULL;
     stopped = false...