Re: How to pass MFC View object to ATL COM server?

Hi,

This is what I am trying to do. I want to create a shell extension
which implement IExtractImage shell interface to generate thunmnail for
a image. Since the image file is saved and opened from a MFC
application and the shell extension is called by shell, I'm thinking of
using connection point to fire an event to the MFC application from the
Extract function of the shell extension(COM object). And the MFC
application get the event and generate thumbnail of the image and pass
the thumnail handle to the shell extension. So the shell can save the
thumbnail when it save the file.

The thing I am not sure is: is the shell extension a inproc server of
the MFC application? do they have the same address space? If they are
not in the same address space, then the shell extension can't get the
thumbnail generated by the MFC application. Will this approach work?

Here is some of my code:
// IExtractImage::Extract
HRESULT CScribbleExtractor::Extract(HBITMAP* phBmpThumbnail)
{
Fire_OnExtractImage( (LONG*) phBmpThumbnail);
return NOERROR;
}

template <class T>
class CProxy_IExtractEvent : public IConnectionPointImpl<T,
&DIID__IExtractEvent, CComDynamicUnkArray>
{
//Warning this class may be recreated by the wizard.
public:
HRESULT Fire_OnExtractImage(LONG * pHBmpThumbnail)
{
CComVariant varResult;
T* pT = static_cast<T*>(this);
int nConnectionIndex;
CComVariant* pvars = new CComVariant[1];
int nConnections = m_vec.GetSize();

for (nConnectionIndex = 0; nConnectionIndex < nConnections;
nConnectionIndex++)
{
pT->Lock();
CComPtr<IUnknown> sp = m_vec.GetAt(nConnectionIndex);
pT->Unlock();
IDispatch* pDispatch = reinterpret_cast<IDispatch*>(sp.p);
if (pDispatch != NULL)
{
VariantClear(&varResult);
pvars[0] = pHBmpThumbnail;
DISPPARAMS disp = { pvars, NULL, 1, 0 };
pDispatch->Invoke(0x1, IID_NULL, LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT,
DISPATCH_METHOD, &disp, &varResult, NULL, NULL);
}
}
delete[] pvars;
return varResult.scode;

}
};

Alexander Nickolov wrote: