DCOM & Dual LAN - COM Discussion Boards

Prabhakar3-Apr-03 11:27

3-Apr-03 11:27

How do I connect to the interface of a component, without importing the type library (dont want to include header either) ? Is there anyway I can get the information from the registry, given the fact that I know the prototypes for the methods present in that interface ?

Basically, I want to access a new component without changing my client app. (Again, the new component's interface methods are known).

Thanks

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Can I add a menu option to Internet Explorer?

rdautel3-Apr-03 7:41

rdautel

3-Apr-03 7:41

Hello,

I'm an experienced programmer, but new to COM. I'd like to add a new option to the 'right-click' menu in internet explorer so rather than performing a 'save as' command I can send GIFs and JPEGs directly to an art program I've written. Is this possible? It seems possible, I just can't find the info I need.

thanks.

Re: Can I add a menu option to Internet Explorer?

Anonymous3-Apr-03 7:54

Anonymous

3-Apr-03 7:54

From Microsoft:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/browser/hosting/wbcustomization.asp

ActiveX on Dialog breaks DialogBoxParam?

Dan Thurman3-Apr-03 7:00

Dan Thurman

3-Apr-03 7:00

I am trying to get access to DataGrid control placed on a Dialog box but without using MFC enviroment (since the code I have is designed this way), and I wondered why the ActiveX DataGrid placed on a Dialog breaks in the callback where WM_INITDIALOG is never called. I needed this because it is the only way I know of to then initialize the DataGrid control with my recordset object.

Any pointers or suggestions?

Thanks--

Virtual drive using Shell Extensions - is it possible?

PoliakovS2-Apr-03 23:55

PoliakovS

2-Apr-03 23:55

I have a task to do: I need to add virtual drive to the system that will display some virtual folders and files. Can somebody help me to start - how to create virtual drive?
Thank you in advance

Stas

multiple IDispatches

mweiss2-Apr-03 22:02

mweiss

2-Apr-03 22:02

I'm writing a com component that has two interfaces that derive from IDispatch. When I compiled the project I got the error:
error C2594: 'static_cast' : ambiguous conversions from 'class CExplorerBar *' to 'struct IDispatch *'. So I changed the COM_INTERFACE_ENTRY to COM_INTERFACE_ENTRY2, so I could specify the IDispatch. Now I have 1 error and 3 warning (I'll just post the error):
c:\program files\microsoft visual studio\vc98\atl\include\atlcom.h(1827) : error C2259: 'CComObject<class cexplorerbar="">' : cannot instantiate abstract class due to following members:
c:\program files\microsoft visual studio\vc98\atl\include\atlcom.h(1823) : while compiling class-template member function 'long __stdcall ATL::CComCreator<class atl::ccomobject<class="" cexplorerbar=""> >::CreateInstance(void *,const struct _GUID
&,void ** )'.

Any ideas about what's going on?

Thanks.

Melinda.

Re: multiple IDispatches

pba_9-Apr-03 12:48

pba_

9-Apr-03 12:48

You cannot inherit from two interfaces derived from IDispatch, because the IDispatch is not a virtual base class ( as the error message is saying, the compiler cannot decide which base class to consider for casting).You can disambiguate the cast by specifying which base class to consider ( (IDispatch*)(IInterface1*)this).
Another issue is that you will have DISPID clashes from the two interfaces ( id 1 assigned to method "test" in iface 1, and for method "clone" for iface2). The solution is dispid encoding ( you can find an article on codeguru about this), manually implementing IDispatch or using tear-off objects.

DCOM & Dual LAN

Deepak Bajaj2-Apr-03 17:56

Deepak Bajaj

2-Apr-03 17:56

Hi All,

How do we handle dual LAN in DCOM.

Suppose I have two machines which are connected to two networks say network A & network B. Each machine has two IP addresses.

My Server is running on one machine & Client on another.
First of all when my Client makes a call to connect to the Server through which network will it get connected ? A or B ?

Moreover suppose the connection was established through network A. Now I want that when someone pulls out the network A LAN cable from Client's or Server's machine then the Client automatically gets connected to the Server through netwrok B.

Does DCOM has a solution for this ?

Please note that the Networks cards installed in the machines are normal cards. They do not form a team.

Best Regards,

Deepak

Re: DCOM & Dual LAN

pba_9-Apr-03 12:55

pba_

9-Apr-03 12:55

You get to decide to which machine the client will connect, by specifying the remote server name in COSERVERINFO structure when calling CoCreateInstanceEx ( or by setting the appropriate value for RemoveServerName into the registry for the server component). DCOM does not have such failsafe mechanisms - if you cannot use the primary server anymore try to switch to the other one.

DCOM & Dual LAN

Deepak Bajaj2-Apr-03 17:56

Deepak Bajaj

2-Apr-03 17:56

"The stub received bad data" error when no marshalling is taking place in Win98

Alberto Bar-Noy2-Apr-03 8:33

Alberto Bar-Noy

2-Apr-03 8:33

Hi all,

I have the following code called from a worker thread in a DLL
HRESULT hRes = CoCreateInstance(CLSID_ToPickReg1,NULL,CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER,__uuidof(IMyInterface),(void**)&m_pRegInterface);

and then I issue a call to a function like this
hRes = ((IMyInterface*)m_pRegInterface)->GetBinDir(&pChar,&errorCode);

where pChar is of type unsigned int * and the function signture is
CMyInterface::GetBinDir(unsigned char **ppuchBinDir, long *plErrorCode)

What I am getting is error 1783 or "The stub received bad data" in Win98 first edition with or without DCom98 installed, while in Win2000 everything works like a peach.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

Alberto Gattegno
Software Engineer
http://www.itgil.com

Word automation

Martyn Pearson2-Apr-03 1:48

Martyn Pearson

2-Apr-03 1:48

This is more Word related than COM related, so I hope you don't mind me asking...

I am using automation of MS Word to build a Word document, and would like to add footers which contain the page number, in the format [some text] [page number] [some text].

It seems to be that you can set the text of the header and footer using HeaderFooter::GetRange() and then Range::SetText(), and you can add a page number to the footer using HeaderFooter::GetPageNumbers() and then PageNumbers::Add(), but you can't marry up the text and page number.

Any ideas on how I can tackle this. Alternatively, does anyone know of any good books that cover word automation to this sort of depth?

Thanks in advance!

Re: Word automation

Martyn Pearson2-Apr-03 2:12

Martyn Pearson

2-Apr-03 2:12

Have actually found the solution now (not ten minutes after asking Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

), but thought I would post the solution as opposed to deleting the thread, in case anyone else had the same problem Smile | :)

Instead of adding to the PageNumbers collection, all you need to do is add a field of type wdFieldPage to the header / footer range. Simple really Smile | :)

threading problems

Dietmar Goetz1-Apr-03 3:49

Dietmar Goetz

1-Apr-03 3:49

I want to use my exe-server (attributed) in a MFC-application with several threads. In the main thread of the MFC-application I use smartpointers and CreateInstance to create an instance of the exe-server. By using CoInitializeEx(NULL, COINIT_MULTITHREADED) I get access to the server in every thread of my application. By using CoInitialize(NULL) just the main thread has access to the server, but that's clear. My Problem is, that if I use any ActiveX component in the application the threading model seems to be initialized automaticaly for single threading and calling CoInitialize is not possible anymore.

Is there a solution for my problem ?

Re: threading problems

pba_9-Apr-03 13:07

pba_

9-Apr-03 13:07

The apartment is initialized for each thread once when you call CoInitInstance ( Ex). If you use COINIT_MULTITHREADED, you can pass around the interface ptr without any problems in any thread marked as MTA. Between threads with different apartments you must marshall the interface ( you can use CoMarshalInterThreadInterfaceInStream / CoGetInterfaceAndReleaseStream)

some questions about events

particle2k31-Mar-03 4:34

particle2k

31-Mar-03 4:34

hello,
i try to create com objects which can be used by scripting clients and by c++ clients
very easily. this is no problem with the objects itself. but i have some trouble with
the events.
if i create the source interface as a standard interface based on idispatch the
wscript.exe crashes. if i look at the event proxy class generated by msvc, i see that
the methods on the interface are called directly, i think this will not work on script
clients. so i changed the interface to a dispinterface, now the generated proxy class
calls the method via invoke, scripting client works fine. but if i want to receive this
event in a simple c++ app the methods are not called directly, well, of course the
invoke method is called instead. so it is not so easy usable in c++. therefore i always
implement two source interfaces per object, on dispinterface as [default,source] for
script clients, and another iunknown based interface with the same methods as [source]
for c++ clients. this works fine, although it is more work to do. i do not know, if
there is a better way to support idispatch clients via invoke, and vtable clients directly
via the method calls? i thought maybe i can qi the interface connected to the cp, and
the idispatch connection will only return the idispatch interface, but it also returns
the event interface without error, but the method call fails.
second problem is that i do not get the automagic in wscript running. the event handler
is called the right way, but it is not executed. i always have to use the
WScript.ConnectObject obj, "obj_" method to connect to the events, then it is working
with vbscript. any idea why? do i need to support additional interfaces for the automagic
support? i added the IProvideClassInfo2Impl and IObjectWithSiteImpl to get the connect-
object method working.
and i have no idea how to use the events in a html-page with jscript. i do not get the
automagic working there, too, maybe the same problem. and attaching a function directly
to an event, like obj.event = myeventfunc, does not work, i always get the error, that
the object does not support the method or property. does it make any problems that the
event has parameters? the sample for onload, onclick do not have parameters. or is something
like the wscript.connectobject available for jscript and html?

well, that all for now, i hope someone could answer one or another? would be great.
many thanks in advance

enrico

Re: some questions about events

Vi231-Mar-03 23:39

Vi2

31-Mar-03 23:39

I would like to offer the following decision.

    //- NO dual ! -----------------------------------------------------
    [
        oleautomation, /*dual,*/
        uuid(XXXXXXXX-XXXX-...),
        helpstring("...")
    ]
    interface ISomeEvents : IDispatch
    {
        [id(SomeDispid),helpstring("...")] HRESULT OnSomeEvent();
...
    };

    //-----------------------------------------------------------------
[
    uuid(XXXXXXXX-XXXX-...), version(n.m), helpstring("...")
]
library SomeLib
{
...
    [
        uuid(XXXXXXXX-XXXX-...), helpstring("...")
    ]
    coclass SomeCoClass
    {
        [default] interface ISome;
        [default, source] interface ISomeEvents;
    };
};

The sink of this interface can be implemented by ATL::IDispatchImpl instead of ATL::IDispEventImpl or ATL::IDispEventSimpleImpl.

With best wishes,
Vita

Re: some questions about events

particle2k1-Apr-03 1:03

particle2k

1-Apr-03 1:03

hello,

well, i tried this, but the result is almost the same. the msvc wizard creates a proxy class
with direct calls to the functions instead of the invoke, therefore the wscript crashes.

what i the idea of not using the dual? could you explain this? why use dual, why not?

enrico

Re: some questions about events

Vi21-Apr-03 2:15

Vi2

1-Apr-03 2:15

I think that you should correct the Wizard to indirect call to the functions. Server must made a call only by Invoke. It's a script requirement.

But your C++ client can realize the sink more simply.

VB, VBS and all ole-automation clients will use the dispatch's Invoke.

But C++ clients can use ATL::IDispatchImpl class (with TLB inforamtion, but without BEGIN_SINK_MAP) instead of ATL::IDispEventImpl class (with manual BEGIN_SINK_MAP), which has also some bugs within it.

HTH

With best wishes,
Vita

Re: some questions about events

particle2k1-Apr-03 2:32

particle2k

1-Apr-03 2:32

oh, ok, i see, well this would be easier for c++ clients, you're right. thanks.

any idea how to get the automagic, the automatic assignment of events in a script
to the object_event methods working?

enrico

Can com post message to app? I own the COM and app.

xiaochnegwx29-Mar-03 15:35

xiaochnegwx

29-Mar-03 15:35

Can com post message to app? I own the COM and app.How to do this? Any function I can use?

Re: Can com post message to app? I own the COM and app.

geo_m29-Mar-03 22:56

geo_m

29-Mar-03 22:56

Yes, it can - depends what you see under 'message'.
But in a general way - if it is interprocess COM he can use wide range of 'messages'.

First it is COM events - like ActiveX components also the COM library can fire events - this OnSomething functions.

It can also send the old plain window message (WM_USER).

It can use the Win32 events - here the message is only 1 bit of info (evt set or not).

then its the whole range of IPC stuff (pipes, mailslots, sockets...).

Depends what you want to do and what you want to achieve.

I only want to post WM_USER to app.How can I do?

xiaochnegwx1-Apr-03 6:56

xiaochnegwx

1-Apr-03 6:56

Can you give me an example(source code)? many thanks.

Re: I only want to post WM_USER to app.How can I do?

geo_m1-Apr-03 7:45

geo_m

1-Apr-03 7:45

Unfortunatelly, I do not have any source or example for sending message, but I think that this link will be useful - I check it quickly and I think it contains answer to all your questions with sending message
Message Management[^]

Hope this helps

Basic ATL-COM problem

Francisco José Sen del Prado29-Mar-03 6:27

Francisco José Sen del Prado

29-Mar-03 6:27

Hello:
I have a basic problem. I create a COM server dll project. Then I create an ATL object (name: Test1). I select custom interface and I compile it. The server is registered OK, but when I launch the OleViewer I see that the Test1 object doesn't implement the ITest1 interface. Why?

Thanks in advance,

Jose.

Use Ctrl+Left/Right to switch messages, Ctrl+Up/Down to switch threads, Ctrl+Shift+Left/Right to switch pages.