Re: Using ATL objects without a COM server
"Alexander Lamaison" <newsgroups@lammy.co.uk> wrote in message
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I have a project that creates and uses COM objects located in a
different DLL as well as two non-createable ATL-based objects of its
own. I would like to get away without making this project a COM
Server (without declaring an ATL module).
Why? What do you believe you lose by declaring a module variable?
I don't really see why it
would need to be as its objects will never be created by any external
code.
CComObject et al doesn't know nor care whether it's created externally
or internally. It would try to increment the module's reference count
either way. There are other places in ATL that presume the existence of
a global module variable.
Will this work?
I assume you have tried it and it didn't, and that's why you are here.
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With best wishes,
Igor Tandetnik
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