Re: COleDataSource

From:
"Giovanni Dicanio" <giovanni.dicanio@invalid.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Wed, 7 May 2008 12:57:37 +0200
Message-ID:
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"RedLars" <Liverpool1892@gmail.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:4463e7a9-21aa-4fec-af81-3d666dfae6ae@c65g2000hsa.googlegroups.com...

COleDataSource * pDataSource = new COleDataSource;
// fill-in code
pDataSource->CacheGlobalData(...);
pDataSource->DoDragDrop ();

This code works! The correct data is transferred to the destination!
The problem now is cleaning up.

Adding a delete pDataSource causes an access violation in destination
code.

What I've noticed is that pDataSource->m_dwRef is increment to 1 on
creation and increased to 3 if OnDragEnter\OnDragDrop or OnDragEnter
\OnDragLeave occurs in destination code.


Those OLE objects are reference counted, so I would not call 'delete' on
them...
I would "respect" their contract of AddRef/Release (these are methods
present in IUknown, the root interface for COM/OLE objects).

Seen some code example use the following pattern:

pDataSource->DoDragDrop ();
if ( pDataSource->m_dwRef <= 1)
   delete pDataSource;
else
   pDataSource->ExternalRelease();


I would just call ->ExternalRelease (or InternalRelease, if there is no
aggregation).

I think that the difference between External and Internal is about
aggregation: External methods like ExternalRelease are to properly manage
aggregation.

  pDataSource->DoDragDrop();
  pDataSource->ExternalRelease();
  // or
  // pDataSource->InternalRelease();
  // if there's no aggregation

I believe that Internal/ExternalRelease will decrement the reference count,
and call C++ 'delete' if reference count is 0.

However, I'm not sure about that, and I would prefer experimenting with some
real code, also considering that you are mixing MFC and managed world of
..NET here... (I think that computer science is an "experimental" science :)
we need compilers, debuggers, log files, etc. to diagnose things and try to
find solutions to bug.)

BTW: I would also post this question in the ATL group.
There is a COM very expert there whose name is Igor (T.): he knows a lot
about COM and OLE and I believe he will give you a detailed answer...

Giovanni

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