Re: Default Implementation for IUnknown

From:
"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.atl
Date:
Thu, 3 May 2007 16:21:42 -0400
Message-ID:
<#qfjqCcjHHA.4040@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl>
Stefan Weber <stefan.weber@gmail.com> wrote:

Why don't you just derive from IDispEvent[Simple]Impl?


Will try that, thank you.

They already
provide a suitable IUnknown implementation. No need for
CComObjectRootEx or IDispatch, and you get to use a sink map instead
of manually implementing a switch in Invoke. Parameter parsing and
coercion is also performed for you.


I need it for handling events registered in the browser's DOM. The
attachEvent method expects an IDispatch interface pointer and uses
Invoke as a callback.


Yes you can. Something like this:

class MySink : public IDispEventSimpleImpl<0, MySink, &IID_IDispatch> {
    typedef IDispEventSimpleImpl<0, MySink, &IID_IDispatch> BaseClass;
public:
    BEGIN_SINK_MAP(MySink)
        SINK_ENTRY_INFO(0, IID_IDispatch, DISPID_VALUE, OnEvent,
&EventInfo)
    END_SINK_MAP()

    // |event| implements IHTMLEventObj[2|3|4]
    // return VARIANT_FALSE to cancel defaul action, VARIANT_TRUE to
allow
    VARIANT_BOOL STDMETHODCALLTYPE OnEvent(IDispatch* event);

    // Suitable for passing to attachEvent
    IDispatch* GetIDispatch() {
        return
reinterpret_cast<IDispatch*>(static_cast<BaseClass*>(this));
    }

private:
    static _ATL_FUNC_INFO EventInfo;
};

// In .cpp file
_ATL_FUNC_INFO MySink::EventInfo = {
    CC_STDCALL, VT_BOOL, 1, {VT_DISPATCH}
};

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