CScrollView within a CDialog

From:

armistad <armistad@gmail.com>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Sat, 24 Nov 2007 21:38:41 -0800 (PST)

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<1ba3e894-fe33-4a11-8205-229ab15949e4@e10g2000prf.googlegroups.com>

I've written a small test app that places a CScrollView-derived class
into a CDialog. It's a simple app and it appears do to everything I
expect, until I select OK or CANCEL to terminate the dialog. At that
point the program aborts with a message of:

Warning: Creating a pane with no CDocument
HEAP[ScrollTest.exe]: Invalid Address specified to
RtlValidateHeap( 00350000, 0035AD1C )

The (I believe) pertinent lines of the stack trace are:

msvcr80d.dll!_CrtIsValidHeapPointer(const void *
pUserData=0x0035ad3c) Line 1963 C++
msvcr80d.dll!_free_dbg_nolock(void * pUserData=0x0035ad3c, int
nBlockUse=12582916) Line 1252 + 0x9 bytes C++
msvcr80d.dll!_free_dbg(void * pUserData=0x0035ad3c, int
nBlockUse=12582916) Line 1194 + 0xd bytes C++
mfc80ud.dll!CObject::operator delete(void * p=0x0035ad3c) Line 42 +
0xf bytes C++
ScrollTest.exe!CScrollWnd::`scalar deleting destructor'() + 0x3c
bytes C++
....

I'm new to MFC so there's a lot of fundamental things I haven't really
had a chance to learn yet. I wonder though, if this has to do with how
I am attaching my CScrollView-derived object onto the CDialog class:

BOOL CScrollDlg::OnInitDialog()
{
    CDialog::OnInitDialog();

        // IDC_STATIC_AREA is a CStatic object
    CWnd* pWnd = GetDlgItem(IDC_STATIC_AREA);

    CRect rect;
    pWnd->GetWindowRect(rect);
    ScreenToClient(rect);

        // m_scrollingView is an object of a class derived from
CScrollView
    m_scrollingView.Attach(this, rect);

    return TRUE;
}

and subsequently creating it:

void CScrollingView::Attach(CWnd* pWnd, CRect& rect, UINT id)
{
    CScrollView::Create(_T("TestWnd"), _T(""), WS_CHILD|WS_VISIBLE, rect,
pWnd, id);

    ...
}

Since the problem seems to manifest in the deletion of the
CScrollingView object, I expect that I'm not creating it properly. I
would appreciate any help.

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