Re: COM object dialogs?

From:
"Alexander Nickolov" <agnickolov@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.atl
Date:
Tue, 23 May 2006 10:11:13 -0700
Message-ID:
<#FNPmvofGHA.4276@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl>
Alas, no. Property pages are designed to work in-process.

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"Jason S" <jmsachs@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1148329786.060812.79460@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...

Argh, I hit a stumbling block. The fine print in the article
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dncomg/html/comwatl.asp) I
mentioned says that IPropertyPage should be implemented by an
in-process object.

The main object I am controlling lives in an out-of-process (local)
server. I put my "config" object implementing IPropertyPage (a
completely separate object) in the same server. Works fine but I
noticed that my client program's window seems to freeze (& not redraw)
when it calls my main object's GUIConfig() method which then calls
OleCreatePropertyFrame to activate the config object.

is there a convenient way to deal with this issue? otherwise it looks
like I have to start a 2nd MSVC project to create the IPropertyPage
method in an in-process server, then distribute/debug/develop two
servers (one in-process, one local server)

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