Re: Creating an object an an output parameter

From:
"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.atl
Date:
Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:15:39 -0400
Message-ID:
<OJugUf5zHHA.3768@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl>
John <John@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

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


Should be

hr = pSomeObj->QueryInterface(pSomeObjOut);

(no ampersand).

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);


You seem to be calling a different method, not the one you've
implemented. What's the connection between ExtractROI and Extract?
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