threads in windows

[SteveCRM]

i can't get threads to work in my windows app...why?

//Steve Mack
//Air Hockey

#include <windows.h>
#include <conio.h>

HWND ghWnd_Main;

HINSTANCE ghInst;

MSG msg;

HWND Clear;

int puckx = 100;
int pucky = 100;

HANDLE HThread;
unsigned long ThreadH;
unsigned long _stdcall getchthread();
char test = 'x';

//function prototypes
void SetFont(HWND hWnd, int iPointSize, const char *pcFontName);  //(obviously) sets fonts of controls
void Draw();

LRESULT CALLBACK WndProc(HWND hWnd, UINT uMsg, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{
	switch(uMsg) {
		case WM_CLOSE:
			TerminateThread(HThread,0);
			DestroyWindow(ghWnd_Main); // Destroy the main window
			return 0;

		case WM_DESTROY:
			TerminateThread(HThread,0);
			PostQuitMessage(0); // Quit the application
			return 0;

		case WM_COMMAND:
			//if(LOWORD(wParam) == BN_CLICKED && (HWND)lParam == OPENABOUT) {

			return 0;
	}
	return DefWindowProc(hWnd, uMsg, wParam, lParam); // Not handled - let the system deal with it
}

//==================WINDOW CODE=========================================================
int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR lpCmdLine, int nCmdShow) {
	ghInst = hInstance;
	
	WNDCLASSEX wcxMyClass;

	wcxMyClass.cbSize = sizeof(WNDCLASSEX); // Size of structure in bytes
	wcxMyClass.style = 0; // Extra style information
	wcxMyClass.lpfnWndProc = WndProc; // Pointer to window procedure
	wcxMyClass.cbClsExtra = 0; // Extra bytes in class definition
	wcxMyClass.cbWndExtra = 0; // Extra bytes for each window
	wcxMyClass.hInstance = hInstance; // Instance handle for the class
	wcxMyClass.hIcon = NULL; // Default icon - use system
	wcxMyClass.hCursor = LoadCursor(NULL, IDC_ARROW); // Load the system arrow
	wcxMyClass.hbrBackground = (HBRUSH)(COLOR_BTNFACE + 1); // Background brush
	wcxMyClass.lpszMenuName = NULL; // Menu name [MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDM_MAINMENU)] - none here
	wcxMyClass.lpszClassName = "TESTCLASS"; // Class name
	wcxMyClass.hIconSm = NULL; // Small icon
	
	RegisterClassEx(&wcxMyClass);  // Register the class

	ghWnd_Main = CreateWindow("TESTCLASS", "Air Hockey - Steve Mack", \
		                      WS_SYSMENU | WS_MINIMIZEBOX, 100, 100, 550, 350, \
							  NULL, NULL, hInstance, NULL);
	if(ghWnd_Main) {
		Clear = CreateWindow("Static", "", WS_CHILD | /*WS_DLGFRAME |*/ WS_VISIBLE, 0, 0, 500, 500, ghWnd_Main, NULL, hInstance, NULL);
		ShowWindow(Clear,0);
		ShowWindow(ghWnd_Main, nCmdShow); // Show using the specific show style
	}

	getchthread(); 
	test = getch();
	TerminateThread(HThread,0);

	//=================== Handle message loop ==================================================
	while(GetMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0)) {
		TranslateMessage(&msg); // Translate keycode messages
		DispatchMessage(&msg); // Send to the window
	}

	UnregisterClass("TESTCLASS", ghInst); // Unregister our window class
	return msg.wParam; // msg.wParam contains the code passed to PostQuitMessage()

}

//=========================FUNCTIONS===============================
void SetFont(HWND hWnd, int iPointSize, const char *pcFontName) {  //(obviously) sets fonts of controls
    
    HFONT hTheFont;
    HDC hDC = GetDC(hWnd);
    int nHeight = -MulDiv(iPointSize, GetDeviceCaps(hDC, LOGPIXELSY), 72);

    hTheFont = CreateFont(nHeight, 0, 0, 0, FW_NORMAL, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, DEFAULT_CHARSET, OUT_DEFAULT_PRECIS, CLIP_DEFAULT_PRECIS, DEFAULT_QUALITY, DEFAULT_PITCH, pcFontName);

    ReleaseDC(hWnd, hDC);

    SendMessage(hWnd, WM_SETFONT, (WPARAM)hTheFont, TRUE);
}

void Draw()
{
	HDC myDC = GetDC(ghWnd_Main);
	Ellipse(myDC, puckx-10,pucky-10,puckx+10,pucky+10);
}

unsigned long _stdcall getchthread() 
{
	int i = 1;
	char buffer[10];
	while(test=='x') 
	{
		SetWindowText(Clear, itoa(i, buffer, 10));
		i++;
	}
    return 0;
}

[CornedBee]

You don't create the thread...