Crash during "scalar deleting destructor" with IDocHostUIHandler!

From:
"Chris Shearer Cooper" <chrisnews@sc3.net>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.inetsdk.programming.mshtml_hosting,microsoft.public.inetsdk.programming.webbrowser_ctl,microsoft.public.vc.atl,microsoft.public.vc.mfc,microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie5.programming.components.webbrowser_ctl,microsoft.public.w
Date:
Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:37:49 -0700
Message-ID:
<12o3rmp8biash39@corp.supernews.com>
Sorry for the cross-post, I'm not sure where this problem is coming from, so
I don't know which group is most likely to be able to help.

In my MFC C++ app, I'm creating a browser window inside a dialog, and I want
to have it be able to communicate with my application. It seems like the
way to do this, is to create a class that implements IDocHostUIHandler, pass
it into the ICustomDoc::SetUIHandler(), and then implement a dispatch class
(one that implements IDispatch) which I return when the HTML control calls
my IDocHostUIHandler::GetExternal.

So far so good. I have a class that implements IDocHostUIHandler, and it is
getting called on a variety of methods (ShowUI, HideUI, etc.) so that's
working.

However, now I have a class that derives from CCmdTarget and calls
EnableAutomation in its constructor, so it should be a happy IDispatch kind
of guy. When my IDocHostUIHandler::GetExternal is called, I 'new' up one of
those, call its InternalAddRef(), and then store its address into the
ppDispatch passed to me in the GetExternal call. I can step through that
with the debugger, but as soon as that function returns, I get a C0000005
exception.

Is there something special I need to be doing in this CCmdTarget-derived
class? Or something different I need to do in my
IDocHostUIHandler::GetExternal?

Thanks!
Chris

=======================
 class CDocHostUIHandler : public IDocHostUIHandler, IOleCommandTarget
....
        virtual HRESULT STDMETHODCALLTYPE GetExternal(
            /* [out] */ IDispatch __RPC_FAR *__RPC_FAR *ppDispatch)
   {
   TRACE(L"CDocHostUIHandler::GetExternal(ppDispatch=%p)\n", ppDispatch);
   External* pExt = new External;
   pExt->InternalAddRef();
   *ppDispatch = (IDispatch*)pExt;
   return S_OK;
   }
....
====================
class External : public CCmdTarget
{
 DECLARE_DYNAMIC(External)

public:
 External(void);
 virtual ~External();

// Attributes
public:
protected:

#ifdef _DEBUG
///// NOTICE - NONE OF THESE FUNCTIONS EVER GET CALLED
 virtual BOOL GetDispatchIID(IID* pIID)
  {
  TRACE(L"External::GetDispatchIID()\n");
  return CCmdTarget::GetDispatchIID(pIID);
  }
 virtual UINT GetTypeInfoCount()
  {
  TRACE(L"External::GetTypeInfoCount()\n");
  return CCmdTarget::GetTypeInfoCount();
  }
 virtual CTypeLibCache* GetTypeLibCache()
  {
  TRACE(L"External::GetTypeLibCache()\n");
  return CCmdTarget::GetTypeLibCache();
  }
 virtual HRESULT GetTypeLib(LCID lcid, LPTYPELIB* ppTypeLib)
  {
  TRACE(L"External::GetTypeLib()\n");
  return CCmdTarget::GetTypeLib(lcid, ppTypeLib);
  }
#endif

// Operations
public:

// Overrides
 // ClassWizard generated virtual function overrides
 //{{AFX_VIRTUAL(External)
 public:
 virtual void OnFinalRelease();
 //}}AFX_VIRTUAL

// Implementation
protected:

 // Generated message map functions
 //{{AFX_MSG(External)
  // NOTE - the ClassWizard will add and remove member functions here.
 //}}AFX_MSG

 DECLARE_MESSAGE_MAP()
 // Generated OLE dispatch map functions
 //{{AFX_DISPATCH(External)
 afx_msg void PopulateWindow(LPCTSTR lpszSection);
 //}}AFX_DISPATCH
 DECLARE_DISPATCH_MAP()
 DECLARE_INTERFACE_MAP()
};
=====================================
// External.cpp : implementation file
//

#include "stdafx.h"
#include "External.h"

#ifdef _DEBUG
 #define new DEBUG_NEW
#endif
#undef THIS_FILE
static char THIS_FILE[] = __FILE__;

// External

IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC(External, CCmdTarget)

External::External(void)
{
 TRACE(L"External::External() entered [this=%p]\n", this);

 EnableAutomation();
}

External::~External()
{
// =============== NEVER GETS CALLED
 TRACE(L"External::~External() entered [this=%p]\n", this);
}

void External::OnFinalRelease()
{
///// ====== NEVER GETS CALLED
 TRACE(L"External::OnFinalRelease()\n");

 // When the last reference for an automation object is released
 // OnFinalRelease is called. The base class will automatically
 // deletes the object. Add additional cleanup required for your
 // object before calling the base class.

 CCmdTarget::OnFinalRelease();
}

BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(External, CCmdTarget)
 //{{AFX_MSG_MAP(External)
  // NOTE - the ClassWizard will add and remove mapping macros here.
 //}}AFX_MSG_MAP
END_MESSAGE_MAP()

BEGIN_DISPATCH_MAP(External, CCmdTarget)
 //{{AFX_DISPATCH_MAP(External)
 DISP_FUNCTION(External, "PopulateWindow", PopulateWindow, VT_EMPTY,
VTS_BSTR)
 //}}AFX_DISPATCH_MAP
END_DISPATCH_MAP()

// {27FD7E29-B451-46c9-8234-F285DAEE2567}
static const IID IID_IExternal =
{ 0x27fd7e29, 0xb451, 0x46c9, { 0x82, 0x34, 0xf2, 0x85, 0xda, 0xee, 0x25,
0x67 } };

BEGIN_INTERFACE_MAP(External, CCmdTarget)
 INTERFACE_PART(External, IID_IExternal, Dispatch)
END_INTERFACE_MAP()

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// External message handlers

void External::PopulateWindow(LPCTSTR lpszSection)
{
 TRACE(L"External::PopulateWindow(lpszSection=\"%s\")\n", lpszSection);
}

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