Re: ATL Compiler Error When Adding Events

From:
wilmeroh@gmail.com
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.atl
Date:
Thu, 1 May 2008 21:29:23 -0700 (PDT)
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On May 1, 10:26 pm, "Igor Tandetnik" <itandet...@mvps.org> wrote:

<wilme...@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:b370952e-5430-4493-9206-9bf3c9164099@q24g2000prf.googlegroups.com

I'm really new to the ATL and I running into an issue when trying to
add event capabilities to a ATL component library.

The error that I got is: error C2039: "OnTrigger": is not a member of
'ICTIXEvents'


Show the code that calls OnTrigger. Was it generated by the wizard? For
a dispinterface, the wizard should have generated a call to
IDispatch::Invoke instead.

However the Generated file CTIXControl1.h that contains the generated
definition of the interface does not show this method

   MIDL_INTERFACE("002B6D0B-0D81-46FC-AE17-597728C721AA")
   ICTIXEvents: public IDispatch
   {
   };


This is normal for a dispinterface. Dispinterface methods are not real
methods, they are simply contracts on what DISPIDs are valid for
IDispatch::Invoke call and what parameters should accompany each DISPID.
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Thanks very much Igor,

That is good to know, however the compiler is complaining that the
onTriger() does not exist on that interface.

The offending line is hr = pConnection->OnTrigger( Line, EventType);
which is located in the Fire_onTrigger method from the
CProxyICTIEvents class, and this method was generated by the "add
connection point" wizard from Visual Studio.

    HRESULT Fire_OnTrigger( short Line, TxEventTypes EventType)
    {
        HRESULT hr = S_OK;
        T * pThis = static_cast<T *>(this);
        int cConnections = m_vec.GetSize();

        for (int iConnection = 0; iConnection < cConnections; iConnection++)
        {
            pThis->Lock();
            CComPtr<IUnknown> punkConnection = m_vec.GetAt(iConnection);
            pThis->Unlock();

            ICTIXEvents * pConnection = static_cast<ICTIXEvents
*>(punkConnection.p);

            if (pConnection)
            {
                hr = pConnection->OnTrigger(Line, EventType); // <-------
offending line.
            }
        }
        return hr;
    }

I'm really confused now since you said that it is normal for the
dispinterface to be be empty. do you know what could be causing this?

Thanks,

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