Re: Passing SAFEARRAY of SHORTs in event causes EEMessageException

From:
"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.atl
Date:
Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:53:18 -0500
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"Egbert Nierop" <egbert_nierop@nospam.invalid> wrote in message
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"Bjoern" <bjoern.d.rasmussen@gmail.com> wrote in message
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template<class T>
class CProxyIMyAudioEvents :
public IConnectionPointImpl<T, &__uuidof(IMyAudioEvents)>
{
HRESULT Fire_OnUserAudioData( LONG nUserID, LONG nSampleRate,
SAFEARRAY* pRawAudio, LONG nSamples)
{
HRESULT hr = S_OK;
T * pThis = static_cast<T *>(this);
int cConnections = m_vec.GetSize();
for (int iConnection = 0; iConnection < cConnections; iConnection++)
{
pThis->Lock();
CComPtr<IUnknown> punkConnection = m_vec.GetAt(iConnection);
pThis->Unlock();
IDispatch * pConnection = static_cast<IDispatch
*>(punkConnection.p);


Never cast dispatch pointers.
If you do so, the reference count might become wrong.

IDispatch * pConnection = static_cast<IDispatch
*>(punkConnection.p);


This code is wizard-generated. The code is correct: the pointer is known
to actually be IDispatch*, it was cast to IUnknown* for storage and it's
safe to cast it back here.
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