Re: COM Events and IDispatch - DWebBrowserEvents2 and HTMLWindowEvents2

From:
"Alexander Nickolov" <agnickolov@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.atl
Date:
Mon, 8 Jan 2007 09:51:38 -0800
Message-ID:
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But beware the shallow split identity performed by
IDsipEvent[Simple]Impl - it only implements QI but
delegates AddRef/Release to the containing object
thus you have shared reference count. It's highly
recommended to not derive an ATL COM object
class from IDispEvent[Simple]Impl in order to
avoid circular reference counts locking an object
in memory indefinitely.

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"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org> wrote in message
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"Lady_A" <alexandra.lev@gmail.com> wrote in message
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I have an IE plugin that is hooked into DWebBrowserEvents2 in the
following way :
[
...
 dual,
...
]
interface IMyInterface : IDispatch {
part of DWebBrowserEvents2 methods with their dispids
};


Why do it this way? Why not use IDispEvent[Simple]Impl, as the nature
intended? See ATLEventHandling sample.

It works fine and now I need to add hooking into
HTMLWindowEvents2::onunload
First of all I am not clear on how can my class can expose in the
COM_MAP an interface DWebBrowserEvents that it does not implement
according to the declaration (it has all the funcs, but there is no ":
public DWebBrowserEvents2")


DWebBrowserEvents2, being a dispinterface, is basically just a synonym for
IDispatch, which you do implement.

Second of all, how do I add the HTMLWindowEvents2 in this case ?


In general, you don't. Implement a separate class for each separate event
interface you want to sink events from. Or, do as I suggested and use
IDispEventImpl; your class can derive from IDispEventImpl more than once,
each such derivation supporting one sink interface. Internally,
IDispEventImpl plays a clever trick called "split COM identity", which
allows one C++ class to pretend to be several COM objects at once.
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With best wishes,
   Igor Tandetnik

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