Re: CreateWindowEx AtlAxWin fails with last error 1407

From:
"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.atl
Date:
Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:52:22 -0500
Message-ID:
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"David Liebtag" <DavidLiebtag@vermontel.net> wrote in message
news:uj5UBJGXIHA.1212@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl

When I pass a license key to ATL during ActiveX control, I think I
need something more in my DLGINIT structure. I fill in the first 5
members and nothing more, Tracing through the ATL code, I see that
it fails on line 1873 of atlhost.h when it tries to call
IPersistStreamInit->Load to initialize the control. Load returns
E_UNEXPECTED.


Ah, I see the problem. When you pass this extra data to CreateWindow,
ATL machinery assumes it's creating a control previously configured and
saved by Dialog Editor. The data is expected to contain a license key
followed by whatever the control wrote with IPersistStream::Save. So the
machinery insists on calling IPersistStream::Load, even if there's no
more data in the stream (rather than InitView you would rather have it
call).

I don't see any way around this. I'm afraid you will have to do
everything separately after all: create the window, create the control,
then attach control to the window. See KB article KB218442 "How to add
ActiveX controls to an ATL composite control programmatically in Visual
C++".
--
With best wishes,
    Igor Tandetnik

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