Re: Handing exceptions

From:
"Giovanni Dicanio" <giovanni.dicanio@invalid.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:52:22 +0100
Message-ID:
<e60nU57dIHA.4712@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>
"Lisa Pearlson" <no@spam.plz> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:e$pDwj7dIHA.4488@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

I thought that by handling exceptions, I could prevent the debug output
for them:

CFile f;
if (f.Open(_T("\\Temp\\test.txt"), CFile::modeRead)) {
   CArchive ar(&f, CArchive::load);
   CString s;
   try {
       while (ar.ReadString(s)) {
           DEBUGMSG(1, (_T("ReadString: %s\r\n"), s));
       }
   } catch (CArchiveException* e) {
       e->ReportError(); // never gets called!
       e->Delete();
   }
}

However, output is still shown for CArchiveException::endOfFile, and my
exception handler is never called.


Frankly speaking, I don't like very much this CArchive thing in MFC... (e.g.
does the above reading code work well for all UTF-8, UTF-16LE, UTF-16BE
text? Does CArchive properly check for BOM? ...I don't know, however I have
my own routines for loading text and handle Unicode properly.)

However, you may consider put the try...catch in a more extern level, and
maybe also catch for CException, just for testing purpose...

  try
  {
     CFile f;
     ...
  }
  catch ...

Giovanni

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