Re: Map problem

I'd start by writing a wrapper class for the events:

// warning: untested code.
class event {
    HANDLE ev;
public:
// You usually don't want to name events unless you're sharing them
// across process boundaries.
    event() : ev(CreateEvent(NULL, FALSE, FALSE, NULL) {}

// haven't thought a lot about this -- might cause problem when copying
// an event. They're really more "identity" than "value" objects.
    ~event() { CloseHandle(ev); }

    DWORD wait(DWORD time = INFINITE) {
        return WaitForSingleObject(ev, time);
    }
};

Then you can put events into your map a bit more directly:

std::map<std::string, event> events;
char const *names[] = {"Event1", "Event2", "Event3"};

#define elements(x) (sizeof(x)/sizeof(x[0]))

for (int i=0; i<elements(names); ++i)
    events.insert(std::make_pair(names[i], event()));