Closing documents caused random crash in ActiveX server application

From:
"hq4000@hotmail.com" <hq4000@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:53:22 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<f7864bf3-b8c2-4fe6-9c8d-96952fef3744@l9g2000yqi.googlegroups.com>
Newbie to ActiveX. I have a MFC ActiveX server application developed
in VS2008 C++. If the application is running in stand alone mode, I
can open and close documents and shut it down without crash. However,
when running inside an ActiveX container, I got some random crash in
the ActiveX server application when trying to close its documents one
at a time. It doesn't happen all the time; i.e. most of times I can
shut down the server application and the container properly. But
there are times crash would happen. When it does crash, in debug
mode, I can see the =93pFrameWnd = 0xdddddddd=94, and it crashed right at
the line, (the line immediate following the while loop), if (pFrameWnd-

m_hWnd != NULL && pFrameWnd != pMainWnd). Any thought?


(I understand I propably should post it on an ActiveX group. But I
don't find any good ActiveX group that is =91active'.)

BOOL CWinThread::OnIdle(LONG lCount)
{
        ...

    if (lCount <= 0)
    {
        // send WM_IDLEUPDATECMDUI to the main window
        CWnd* pMainWnd = m_pMainWnd;
        if (pMainWnd != NULL && pMainWnd->m_hWnd != NULL &&
            pMainWnd->IsWindowVisible())
        {
            AfxCallWndProc(pMainWnd, pMainWnd->m_hWnd,
                WM_IDLEUPDATECMDUI, (WPARAM)TRUE, 0);
            pMainWnd->SendMessageToDescendants(WM_IDLEUPDATECMDUI,
                (WPARAM)TRUE, 0, TRUE, TRUE);
        }
        // send WM_IDLEUPDATECMDUI to all frame windows
        AFX_MODULE_THREAD_STATE* pState = _AFX_CMDTARGET_GETSTATE()-
m_thread;
        
CFrameWnd* pFrameWnd = pState->m_frameList;
        while (pFrameWnd != NULL)
        {
            //****CRASH RIGHT HERE: pFrameWnd = 0xdddddddd in debug mode***//
            if (pFrameWnd->m_hWnd != NULL && pFrameWnd != pMainWnd)
            {
                if (pFrameWnd->m_nShowDelay == SW_HIDE)
                    pFrameWnd->ShowWindow(pFrameWnd->m_nShowDelay);
                if (pFrameWnd->IsWindowVisible() ||
                    pFrameWnd->m_nShowDelay >= 0)
                {
                    AfxCallWndProc(pFrameWnd, pFrameWnd->m_hWnd,
                        WM_IDLEUPDATECMDUI, (WPARAM)TRUE, 0);
                    pFrameWnd->SendMessageToDescendants(WM_IDLEUPDATECMDUI,
                        (WPARAM)TRUE, 0, TRUE, TRUE);
                }
                if (pFrameWnd->m_nShowDelay > SW_HIDE)
                    pFrameWnd->ShowWindow(pFrameWnd->m_nShowDelay);
                pFrameWnd->m_nShowDelay = -1;
            }
            pFrameWnd = pFrameWnd->m_pNextFrameWnd;
        }
    }

        ...

    return lCount < 1; // nothing more to do if lCount >= 1
}

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