Re: Creating an object an an output parameter

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Date:

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:02:06 -0700

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<74D918E4-73D4-483D-8E46-99968A30207F@microsoft.com>

Igor,

This all seems to work but when I return from the call the object has not been
created.

Here is the method that creates the object;

STDMETHODIMP CSomeObj::Extract(RECT roi, ISomeObj** pSomeObjOut)
{
    CComObject<CSomeObj>* pSomeObj = 0;
    CComObject<CSomeObj>::CreateInstance(&pSomeObj);
    pSomeObj ->AddRef();
....
....
....
    hr = pSomeObj->QueryInterface(&pSomeObjOut);
    pSomeObj ->Release();
    return hr;
}

And here is the code that calls the method, and when it returns pNewSomeObj
is NULL. I don't know if it's because I'm using a smart pointer and it goes
out
of scope.

RECT roi;
CComPtr<ISomeObj> pNewSomeObj;
HRESULT hr = pSomeObj->ExtractROI(roi, &pNewSomeObj);

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

"Igor Tandetnik" wrote:

John <John@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

How do you create an object as an [out] parameter?

Say for instance I have the following method defined in my idl file;

interface ISomeObj : IUnknown
{
...
...
Extract([in] RECT rc, [out, retva]l ISomeObj** pobj)
...
...
}

in the implement file;

HRESULT CSomeObj::Extract(RECT rc, ISomeObj** pobj)
{
// I need to create and return an instance of CSomeObj and return it
in pobj return S_OK;
}

CComObject<CSomeObj>* pSomeObj = 0;
CComObject<CSomeObj>::CreateInstance(&pSomeObj);
pSomeObj->AddRef();

// Initialize the object as needed. The particular call below
// is only an example, not an exact syntax
pSomeObj->Init(rc);

HRESULT hr = pSomeObj->QueryInterface(&pObj);
pSomeObj->Release();
return hr;

--
With best wishes,
Igor Tandetnik

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