Re: Sharing a smart pointer between threads

From:
"PaulH" <paul.heil@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.atl
Date:
21 Aug 2006 10:39:35 -0700
Message-ID:
<1156181975.690194.175330@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>
It appears CComGITPtr isn't available for PocketPC (not that I
mentioned that it had to be earlier.) Is there a PPC 2003+ compatible
solution you can think of?

Thanks,
-PaulH

Igor Tandetnik wrote:

PaulH <paul.heil@gmail.com> wrote:

I have a COM object smart pointer I'd like to share between threads
(as in the code below). The object works great in the thread it was
created in, but I get an exception when I use it in the thread I'm
sending it to.


In general, you can't do that. The interface pointer has to be
marshalled before it can be used in a different apartment. The easiest
way to do this in ATL is probably with CComGITPtr:

MyLib::IInterfacePtr m_Obj;
CMyApp::OnTimer()
{
    CComGITPtr<MyLib::IInterface> gitPtr(m_Obj);
    DWORD cookie = gitPtr.Detach();
    m_dialog->PostMessage(MYWM_UPDATE, cookie);
}

CMyDlg::OnUpdateMsg(WPARAM wParam, LPARAM /*lParam*/)
{
    DWORD cookie = static_cast<DWORD>(wParam);
    CComGITPtr<MyLib::IInterface> gitPtr(cookie);

    MyLib::IInterfacePtr pObj;
    gitPtr.CopyTo(&pObj);

    pObj->DoSomething();
}

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    Igor Tandetnik

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