Re: AfxMessageBox returns immediately without displaying the box
What is GetErrorMessage returning? Is it a valid char *?
AliR.
"Bogdan" <nouser@nodomain.com> wrote in message
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Hi,
This is a pseudo code from InitInstance() of my dialog based app:
if (cmdInfo.m_strAppName.IsEmpty()) {
AfxMessageBox(IDS_SYNTAX, MB_OK | MB_ICONSTOP); // <= works fine!
return FALSE;
}
try {
/* ... */
CMyDlg dlg;
m_pMainWnd = &dlg;
INT_PTR nResponse = dlg.DoModal();
if (nResponse == IDOK) {
/* ... */ // might throw CMyException
} else if (nResponse == IDCANCEL) {
// TODO: Place code here to handle when the dialog is
// dismissed with Cancel
}
} catch (CMyException& e) {
// Neither of the calls below will display the box
//nResponse = AfxMessageBox(e.GetErrorMessage(), MB_OK |
MB_ICONSTOP);
nResponse = ::MessageBox(NULL, L"Text", L"Caption", MB_OK |
MB_ICONSTOP);
}
The problem is that whenever exception is thrown I could hear a beep but
the message box is not displayed. Both Afx.. and Win API functions return
immediately with ret code set to 1 (IDOK).
Could someone please give me some idea what might be causing that
behaviour?
Thanks,
Bogdan
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