Re: Why does this cause "data abort" ?

From:
"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:37:49 -0400
Message-ID:
<#ZAO4wlFIHA.3672@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl>
Lisa Pearlson <no@spam.plz> wrote:

As for the LoadIcon one.. no, it's not the reason for the problem..
but it is strange to me why following occurs, which may be related:

CSomeClass
{
       CSomeClass(HINSTANCE hInstance) { m_hInstance = hInstance; };
       virtual ~CSomeClass(){};
       HINSTANCE m_hInstance;
       HICON LoadIcon(UINT nID) {
               return (HICON)LoadImage(m_hInstance,
MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDI_APP_ICON),
                               IMAGE_ICON, 16, 16, LR_DEFAULTCOLOR);


Is it your intention that LoadIcon ignore its parameter and use a
hard-coded ID of IDI_APP_ICON instead?

// exported func
void SomeExportedFunc()
{
       CSomeClass* p = new CSomeClass(g_hInstance);

       HICON hIcon;

       // this FAILS
       hIcon = p->LoadIcon(IDI_ICON);

       // this SUCCEEDS
       hIcon = (HICON)LoadImage(m_hInstance,
                               MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDI_ICON), IMAGE_ICON,
16, 16, LR_DEFAULTCOLOR);


What's m_hInstance? As far as I can tell, it's an undeclared identifier
at this point.

As to why p->LoadIcon fails and LoadImage succeeds, note that the two
calls pass different IDs to LoadImage. Could it be that IDI_APP_ICON is
not a valid ID, while IDI_ICON is?
--
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    Igor Tandetnik

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