Re: ATL console applcation using ActiveX control

Hi Brian and Alexander!

Thank you very much for helping me in this case!

First of all I want to clearify some things which I have not made clear:

1) My activeX control which I try to invoke a method from is created in VC++
using MFC.

2) What I would like to do is, if possible (i dont know if it is): create an
atl console application (by using c++) and invoke a method from the control,
which only returns a number.

3) As it stands now, my code is a little modified from what I posted here
first. My code is posted below. The hres is now S_OK, which indicate the that
I have "contact" with my control. It crashes when I call the method:

x=calc->getAge();

One should think that this indicates that there is something wrong with my
activeX control, but I have tested it in different containers and everything
works well. All these other containers are typical dialog based application
written in VC++ or VB.

And another argument that the control is working properly is that it is
created using the MFC activex wizzard, and then just adding a simple method.

So what do you think is happening?

My atl console app code is now:

#include "stdafx.h"
#include <atlcomcli.h>
#import "Calc.ocx" no_namespace
#include <iostream>
#include "conio.h"
using namespace std;

int main ()
{
    CoInitialize (NULL);

    // Smart Pointer
    CComQIPtr <_DCalc> calc;
  
    // Instantiate Class using Prog Id
    HRESULT hRes = calc.CoCreateInstance (L"Calc.CalcCtrl.1");

    if (SUCCEEDED (hRes))
    {
        cout<<"Created the instance"<<endl;
        short x =19;
        x=calc->getAge();

        cout<<"Age : "<<x<<endl;
        cout<<"Press any key to continue....";
        _getch();

        calc.Release();
    }
    else
    {
        cout<<"There was an error.."<<endl;
        cout<<"Press any key to continue....";
        _getch();
    }
    CoUninitialize();
    return 0;
}

Thanks again guys!

"Brian Muth" wrote: