receiving events in console app

From:
"Peter Posselt Vergmann" <ppv_milestone@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.atl
Date:
Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:57:05 +0200
Message-ID:
<uMZ6uSzCIHA.1188@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>
Hi
I am a newbie to COM and ATL and is trying to create a console application
that can receive events from a COM service.
I have a demo GUI application which is working fine and have simply copied
all COM and event functionality to a simple console application, but I never
receive and events in the console app.
I have searched through google and have found different suggestions and
tried them all without any luck, so now my hope is that someone on this
group will have a look at the code and tell me what I do wrong. I am using
VC 2003 on a Windows XP SP2 if that matters.
Hope someone can help..
Best regards,
Peter

CComModule _Module;
class EventReceiver :
   public IDispEventImpl<0, EventReceiver,
&VideoOS_SDK::DIID_ICentralEvents, &VideoOS_SDK::LIBID_VideoOS_SDK, 3, 0>
{
public:
  EventReceiver(void)
  {
    CoInitializeEx(NULL,COINIT_MULTITHREADED);
    _Module.Init(NULL, GetModuleHandle(NULL));
  };
  ~EventReceiver(void){};
  void Start()
  {
    m_pCentral.CreateInstance(__uuidof(VideoOS_SDK::Central));
    if (m_pCentral != NULL)
    {
      m_pCentral->SystemInfoUpdateInterval = 1;
      CComPtr<IUnknown> pUnk;
      this->_LocDEQueryInterface(IID_IUnknown, (void**)&pUnk);
      HRESULT hresult = AtlAdvise(m_pCentral.GetInterfacePtr(), pUnk,
__uuidof(VideoOS_SDK::ICentralEvents), &m_dwCentralEventSinkCP);
      _variant_t connected = m_pCentral->Connect();
    }
  };
  void Stop()
  {
    m_pCentral->Close();
    HRESULT hresult = AtlUnadvise(m_pCentral.GetInterfacePtr(),
__uuidof(VideoOS_SDK::ICentralEvents), m_dwCentralEventSinkCP);
  };
public:
  BEGIN_SINK_MAP(EventReceiver)
    SINK_ENTRY_EX(0, VideoOS_SDK::DIID_ICentralEvents, 1,
ConnectionStateChanged)
    SINK_ENTRY_EX(0, VideoOS_SDK::DIID_ICentralEvents, 2,
SystemStatusUpdated)
    SINK_ENTRY_EX(0, VideoOS_SDK::DIID_ICentralEvents, 3, DeviceEvent)
  END_SINK_MAP()
protected:
  void _stdcall ConnectionStateChanged(VARIANT sender, LPDISPATCH
e){printf("ConnectionStateChanged\n");};
  void _stdcall SystemStatusUpdated(VARIANT sender, LPDISPATCH
e){printf("SystemStatusUpdated\n");};
  void _stdcall DeviceEvent(VARIANT sender, LPDISPATCH
e){printf("DeviceEvent\n");};
private:
  VideoOS_SDK::ICentralPtr m_pCentral;
  DWORD m_dwCentralEventSinkCP;
};

int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
  EventReceiver er;
  er.Start();
  printf("started\n");
  getchar();
  er.Stop();
  return 0;
}

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