Re: COM Apartments - Message Loops
Ron Ayoub <ronaldayoub@yahoo.com> wrote:
Well, one that I read I probably misread now that I look at it again.
All I need was for you to reinforce the correct idea. In my earlier
applications I always used critical sections when accessing an object
from multiple threads so I never had issues. I guess I never relied
upon COM to synchronize things for me.
Why did you enter STA then, if you were treating the objects as if they
lived in MTA? Why not be honest and run in MTA in the first place?
But I'm still a bit confused. I understand that CoInitialize() is
called to enter into an STA. But if you then spawn a thread while in
an STA do you have to call CoInitialize() again for that spawned
thread to enter into an STA.
Yes. Every thread must explicitly initialize COM before it can do any
COM work. This applies equally to STA and MTA.
I found that that wasn't necessary
Because you were really bypassing COM.
and
also that it didn't create problems since no exception where thrown
upon the use of COM in those spawned threads.
Direct method call is just a few assembly instructions. COM runtime is
out of the picture and cannot intervene. You are not really doing COM at
all.
--
With best wishes,
Igor Tandetnik
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