Export a splitter view from a DLL using WTL.

From:
yzy0@yeah.net
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.atl
Date:
6 Apr 2007 09:41:14 -0700
Message-ID:
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WTL library shows the codes below:

// Constructor
   CSplitterImpl() :
     m_xySplitterPos(-1), m_nDefActivePane(SPLIT_PANE_NONE),
     m_cxySplitBar(0), m_cxyMin(0), m_cxyBarEdge(0),
m_bFullDrag(true),
     m_cxyDragOffset(0), m_nProportionalPos(0),
m_bUpdateProportionalPos(true),
     m_dwExtendedStyle(SPLIT_PROPORTIONAL),
     m_nSinglePane(SPLIT_PANE_NONE)
   {
    m_hWndPane[SPLIT_PANE_LEFT] = NULL;
    m_hWndPane[SPLIT_PANE_RIGHT] = NULL;

    ::SetRectEmpty(&m_rcSplitter);

    if(m_hCursor == NULL)
    {
     CStaticDataInitCriticalSectionLock lock;
     if(FAILED(lock.Lock()))
     {
      ATLTRACE2(atlTraceUI, 0, _T("ERROR : Unable to lock critical
section
in CSplitterImpl::CSplitterImpl.\n"));
      ATLASSERT(FALSE);
      return;
     }

     if(m_hCursor == NULL)
      m_hCursor = ::LoadCursor(NULL, t_bVertical ? IDC_SIZEWE :
IDC_SIZENS);

     lock.Unlock();
    }
   }
The constrctor uses CStaticDataInitCriticalSectionLock lock; to
control
synchronous resource loading. I found that this caused a crash problem
when I load a CSplitterWindow from a DLL file. After commented the
lock
related bold lines, it works fine. I wonder if it will affect the
application in the future if I comment these lines. Can we remove
these
lines forever? If not, how can we handle the crash problem?

My demo application creates a SDI project without any view, only load
a
dll and create a CSplitterWindow exported from DLL. Below shows my
code.

MainFrame Code:
void CMainFrame::LoadDLL(LPCTSTR lpPath)
{
       typedef void (*PFN_MERGEVIEW)(WDLLView**);
       HMODULE hDLLInst = ::LoadLibrary((LPCTSTR)strDLLFile);
       pfnMergeView = (PFN_MERGEVIEW)::GetProcAddress(hDLLInst,
"MergeView");
       if (item.m_pfnMergeView)
       {
            pfnMergeView(&m_pDLLView);
            m_hWndClient = m_pDLLView->Initialize(this->m_hWnd);
        }
        return nRet;
}
LRESULT CMainFrame::OnCreate(UINT /*uMsg*/, WPARAM /*wParam*/, LPARAM
/*lParam*/, BOOL& /*bHandled*/)
{
     .........
      this->LoadDLL(_T("TestDLL.dll"));

      return 0;
}

DLL view code:
struct WDLLView
{
      virtual ~WDLLView() { } // we intend
on
deriving from this,
      virtual HWND Initialize(HWND hParentWnd) = 0; // Use this
to
initialize the object
      virtual void Destroy() = 0; // Use this
to
destroy the object
      virtual TCHAR* Description() = 0; // What this
thing does
};
extern "C" WTLTEST_API void __cdecl MergeView(WDLLView** ppOutView);
class CReplaceSplitView : public WDLLView,
                            public CWindowImpl<CReplaceSplitView>,
                            public CSplitterImpl<CReplaceSplitView,
true>
{
public:
      CReplaceSplitView(){};
      ~CReplaceSplitView(){};

      HWND m_hWndParent;

      HWND Initialize(HWND hParentWnd)
      {
          m_hWndParent = hParentWnd;
          return this->Create(hParentWnd, rcDefault);
      }

      void Destroy()
      { // nothing to destroy
      }

      TCHAR* Description()
      {
          return (_T("Test loading a WTL Split View from DLL"));
      }

      BEGIN_MSG_MAP(CReplaceSplitView)
      END_MSG_MAP()
};

extern "C" WTLTEST_API void __cdecl MergeView(WDLLView** ppOutView)
{
      *ppOutView = new CReplaceSplitView;
}

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