Re: AfxMessageBox returns immediately without displaying the box

From:
"AliR \(VC++ MVP\)" <AliR@online.nospam>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:48:48 -0500
Message-ID:
<dZYyi.6343$924.3529@newssvr23.news.prodigy.net>
I think he overridded the GetErrorMessage method in his CExecption derived
class.

AliR.

"Jonathan Wood" <jwood@softcircuits.com> wrote in message
news:OWdeANN5HHA.1148@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...

CException::GetErrorMessage() returns BOOL so that would cause serious
problems and I can't imagine how that could ever compile without errors.
I'm sure ::MessageBox() isn't too crazy about NULL either. You need to
pass a valid string argument, and it would be nice if it compiles too.

My catch blocks look like this:

e->ReportError();
e->Delete();

Nice and simple.

--
Jonathan Wood
SoftCircuits Programming
http://www.softcircuits.com

"Bogdan" <nouser@nodomain.com> wrote in message
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Hi,

This is a pseudo code from InitInstance() of my dialog based app:

 if (cmdInfo.m_strAppName.IsEmpty()) {
   AfxMessageBox(IDS_SYNTAX, MB_OK | MB_ICONSTOP); // <= works fine!
   return FALSE;
 }

 try {
   /* ... */
   CMyDlg dlg;
   m_pMainWnd = &dlg;
   INT_PTR nResponse = dlg.DoModal();
   if (nResponse == IDOK) {

       /* ... */ // might throw CMyException

       } else if (nResponse == IDCANCEL) {
           // TODO: Place code here to handle when the dialog is
           // dismissed with Cancel
       }
   } catch (CMyException& e) {
       // Neither of the calls below will display the box
       //nResponse = AfxMessageBox(e.GetErrorMessage(), MB_OK |
MB_ICONSTOP);
       nResponse = ::MessageBox(NULL, L"Text", L"Caption", MB_OK |
MB_ICONSTOP);
   }

The problem is that whenever exception is thrown I could hear a beep but
the message box is not displayed. Both Afx.. and Win API functions
return immediately with ret code set to 1 (IDOK).

Could someone please give me some idea what might be causing that
behaviour?

Thanks,
Bogdan

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