Re: Queryinterface then Release fails

From:
"Fred" <not@here.com>
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Date:
Fri, 9 Nov 2007 16:03:35 -0000
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"Giovanni Dicanio" <giovanni.dicanio@invalid.it> wrote in message
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"Fred" <not@here.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
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What part of my code would you like to see? :)

No need your guess was correct.!


I'm glad.

then I look at the imageInfo (for fun :) ) and it fails!!!!

hr=pImage->GetImageInfo(&imageInfo);


What value of HRESUL do you get?

IImage::GetImageInfo

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa452166.aspx

The same code works if I do it in the thread repeatedly - but fails in
the main thread.

I have CoInitializeEx(0, COINIT_MULTITHREADED);
once in the main thread.


Have you tried COINIT_APARTMENTTHREADED ?
i.e.

 CoInitializeEx(
   NULL,
   COINIT_APARTMENTTHREADED
 );

You may have some problems of concurrency with the multi-threaded model of
COINIT_MULTITHREADED; if you use multi-threaded model, you should provide
your own synchronization mechanisms e.g. typically using Win32 primitives
like critical sections, semaphores, etc.
Instead, if you use the apartment-threaded model
(COINIT_APARTMENTTHREADED) you can still have multi-threading, but COM
offers its own synchronization (serializing calls to methods of objects).


Hmm - NO SDK examples have COINIT_APARTMENTTHREADED and when I tried to use
it I got E_FAIL returned from CoInitializeEx.

But hunting around I found this text in an SDK Imaging demo

// Normally you would only call CoInitialize/CoUninitialize
// once per thread. This sample calls CoInitialize in this
// draw function simply to illustrate that you must call
// CoInitialize before calling CoCreateInstance.

CoInitializeEx(NULL, COINIT_MULTITHREADED);

// Create the imaging factory.

if (SUCCEEDED(CoCreateInstance (CLSID_ImagingFactory,
NULL,
CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER,
IID_IImagingFactory,
(void **)&pImgFactory)))
{...

So I do just that creating it once per thread. And.......

It still fails, so I put a

CoInitializeEx(NULL, COINIT_MULTITHREADED);

CoUninitialize ();

pair around everywhere I CoCreateInstance (CLSID_ImagingFactory

And.......

It sometimes works sometimes doesn't.
so I imagine it *is* something to do with the threading. But......

The hr is
 hr -2147467259 {E_FAIL}
The debuuger error I get back when it fails is:

GetImageInfo fails//my text

RaiseException: Thread=9665e4c0 Proc=815875b0 'SP1.exe'

AKY=00200001 PC=03f785b4(coredll.dll+0x000185b4)
RA=800773f4(NK.EXE+0x000073f4) BVA=00000000 FSR=00000000

Hummpphh!!!

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