Re: Default Implementation for IUnknown

From:
"Alexander Nickolov" <agnickolov@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.atl
Date:
Thu, 3 May 2007 10:07:40 -0700
Message-ID:
<eV$WPWajHHA.5084@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl>
I second Igor's suggestion about IDispEvent[Simple]Impl.

Just to answer your question, you need to wrap your object
in CComObject<> or one of its siblings to get an IUnkown
implementation:

CComObject<DOMEventHandler>* pObj = NULL;
HRESULT hr = CComObject<DOMEventHandler>::CreateInstance(&pObj);
pObj->GetUnknown()->AddRef();
// Use it here
pObj->GetUnknown()->Release();

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"Stefan Weber" <stefan.weber@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1178209256.630883.326020@e65g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...

Hi,

I'm trying to implement an IDispatch object that I can use as an event
handler in a COM object (i.e. a browser helper object). It looks like
that:

--

#include "oaidl.h"

class DOMEventHandler :
public CComObjectRootEx<CComSingleThreadModel>,
public IDispatch
{
public:

DOMEventHandler(void) {}
virtual ~DOMEventHandler(void) {}

BEGIN_COM_MAP(DOMEventHandler)
COM_INTERFACE_ENTRY(IDispatch)
END_COM_MAP()

// IDispatch
virtual HRESULT STDMETHODCALLTYPE Invoke(DISPID dispIdMember,
REFIID riid,
LCID lcid,
WORD wFlags,
DISPPARAMS * pDispParams,
VARIANT *pVarResult,
EXCEPINFO * pExcepInfo,
UINT * puArgErr);
HRESULT STDMETHODCALLTYPE GetTypeInfoCount(UINT *pctinfo);
HRESULT STDMETHODCALLTYPE IDispatch::GetTypeInfo(UINT iTInfo,
   LCID lcid,
   ITypeInfo **ppTInfo);
HRESULT STDMETHODCALLTYPE IDispatch::GetIDsOfNames(REFIID riid,
   LPOLESTR *rgszNames,
   UINT cNames,
   LCID lcid,
   DISPID *rgDispId);

};

--

Now when I want to instantiat this class, I get the error that QI,
AddRef and Release are abstract. First, I thought that
CComObjectRootEx provides a default implementation for these methods.
Looking closer, I realized that it actually doesn't: It implements
methods related with reference counting but with different names. This
leads me to the first question: What is CComObjectRootEx used for?

Anyway, given the fact that CComObjectRootEx does not implement the
IUnknown methods, I techically understand the compiler error. But I
did things exactly as described in a MSND tutorial (http://
msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/IETechCol/
cols/dnexpie/expie_hello_bho.asp). In this case, everything works
fine. In fact, I used the tutorial and for the BHO's main class
(called CHelloWorldBHO in the example), it works fine. However, as
soon as I create another class (as described above), I get the
problem.

Anybody has an idea what I my error is?

Thanks,

Stefan

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