Re: CWindowImpl - MessageLoop - CAtlWinModule
mick <a@b,com> wrote:
Hi I'm considering using ATL for a windowed application
You may want to look at WTL: http://wtl.sourceforge.net
It is an extension of ATL that provides many features useful for
windowing. It comes with wizards that can create various types of
Windows applications, similar to MFC ones.
because the
message handling appears to be much more efficient compared to MFC, I
like other features of ATL too but I'm having a bit trouble working
out why all the sample code I've found uses CComModule. According to
the documentation this is supposed to be obsolete. CAtlWinModule is
the module thrown in by VStudio, it has appears to have a built in
message loop. However this never runs because
AtlComModuleRegisterClassObjects always fails.
Why is AtlComModuleRegisterClassObjects failing?
Probably because you don't have an object map, seeing as your app is not
a COM server. You can safely remove RegisterClassObjects call in
WinMain.
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With best wishes,
Igor Tandetnik
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