Re: member variables scope in atl com dll...

From:
"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.atl
Date:
Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:46:17 -0400
Message-ID:
<ujPqIoBiHHA.4600@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>
John <John@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

class ATL_NO_VTABLE CMyTest :
{
CMyDatabase m_objDatabase;
}

STDMETHODIMP CMyTest::OpenDatabase(BSTR* username)
{
m_objDatabase= new CMyDatabase();


How does this compile? You assign a CMyDatabase* pointer to an object of
type CMyDatabase. Does CMyDatabase class have an assignment operator
taking a pointer? What does this operator do?

if(!m_objDatabase->OpenDataBase(m_userName))


Does CMyDatabase provide operator-> ? How does it work?

//here m_objDatabase is getting null. I want to use m_objDatabase in
this function and already created in Opendatabase funcion.
STDMETHODIMP CMyTest::UseDatabase()
{
AFX_MANAGE_STATE(AfxGetStaticModuleState())
if (m_objDatabase != NULL)


Again, considering that m_objDatabase is not a pointer, how does this
comparison work?
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