Re: how to write a base implementation class for common activex contro?

From:
"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.atl
Date:
Wed, 9 Aug 2006 22:00:07 -0400
Message-ID:
<e#zyrCCvGHA.3264@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl>
"thinktwice" <memorialday@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1155174309.821594.81270@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com

most atl activex control class would look like this

class ATL_NO_VTABLE CMyControl:
public CComObjectRootEx<CComSingleThreadModel>,
public IDispatchImpl<IMyControlInterface, &IID_IMyControlInterface,
&LIBID>,
public CComControl<CMyControl>,
public IPersistStreamInitImpl<CMyControl>,
public IOleControlImpl<CMyControl>,

[snip]

is it possible to write a common base class so i could just write my
control like this
class CMyControl: public CBaseControlImpl<CMyControl, TInterface,
TEventInterface, clisid, libid...>
{
}


I don't see why not. Something like

template <class T, CLSID* clsid, ...>
class CBaseControlImpl :
    public CComObjectRootEx<CComSingleThreadModel>,
    public CComControl<T>,
    public IPersistStreamInitImpl<T>,
    public IOleControlImpl<T>,
    ...
{
    BEGIN_COM_MAP(CBaseControlImpl)
        COM_INTERFACE_ENTRY(IOleObject)
        COM_INTERFACE_ENTRY(IOleControl)
        ...
    END_COM_MAP()
};

class CMyControl :
    public CBaseControlImpl<CMyControl, ...>,
    ...
{
private:
    typename CBaseControlImpl<CMyControl, ...> BaseClass;
public:
    BEGIN_COM_MAP(CMyControl)
        COM_INTERFACE_ENTRY(IMyInterface)
        COM_INTERFACE_ENTRY_CHAIN(BaseClass)
    END_COM_MAP()
};

--
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    Igor Tandetnik

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