Re: Creating an object an an output parameter

From:
"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.atl
Date:
Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:17:39 -0400
Message-ID:
<ekNs4BvzHHA.600@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>
John <John@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

How do you create an object as an [out] parameter?

Say for instance I have the following method defined in my idl file;

interface ISomeObj : IUnknown
{
...
...
Extract([in] RECT rc, [out, retva]l ISomeObj** pobj)
...
...
}

in the implement file;

HRESULT CSomeObj::Extract(RECT rc, ISomeObj** pobj)
{
 // I need to create and return an instance of CSomeObj and return it
 in pobj return S_OK;
}


CComObject<CSomeObj>* pSomeObj = 0;
CComObject<CSomeObj>::CreateInstance(&pSomeObj);
pSomeObj->AddRef();

// Initialize the object as needed. The particular call below
// is only an example, not an exact syntax
pSomeObj->Init(rc);

HRESULT hr = pSomeObj->QueryInterface(&pObj);
pSomeObj->Release();
return hr;

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