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Re: Using the COM interface with VS2017 and plain C++

by Peke » Thu Jun 21, 2018 9:37 am

Hi,
In any other languages I used I simply ignored definitions like "IDispatch *pIDisp;" and assumed directly "ISDBSongIterator* pSDBIterator" which would result in "something like pSDBDatabase->QuerySongs(qs, &pSDBIterator);"

Re: Using the COM interface with VS2017 and plain C++

by dplummer » Thu Jun 21, 2018 6:43 am

Thanks for the reply Pavle,

This is not quite right and I am still struggling.

My code is:

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		ISDBDatabase *pSDBDatabase;
		pSDB->get_Database(&pSDBDatabase);
		BSTR qs = SysAllocString(L"Author='Berio, Adolfo'");
		IDispatch *pIDisp;
		pSDBDatabase->QuerySongs(qs, &pIDisp);
This returns OK but the IDispatch pointer returned from QuerySongs does not seem to be an iterator. Your example calls get_Iterator, is something a c++ iterable object?

I feel I must be very close to the solution. Any suggestions gratefully received.

Re: Using the COM interface with VS2017 and plain C++

by Peke » Wed Jun 20, 2018 9:10 pm

Maybe something like

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ISDBDatabase* pDatabase;
	pSDB->get_Database(&pDatabase);
	ISDBSongIterator* pSDBIterator
	get_Iterator(&pDatabase->QuerySongs());
Forgive me if I'm wrong this is not my stronger side.

Also do not extract check EOF result and if NOT Get ITEM and Call NEXT like with pPlayer->Play() til you get what you want or EOF.

Re: Using the COM interface with VS2017 and plain C++

by dplummer » Wed Jun 20, 2018 5:12 pm

Hi again,

I had really hoped that I could work this out for myself but I have failed to get a result from QuerySongs with the c++ interface.

I have successfully accessed the interface and can control the player. However I have been reading as much background as I can and beating my head against a brick wall but am getting nowhere.

QuerySongs runs and returns an IDispatch object pointer. The documentation says that the it should return a SongIterator object but I cannot discover how to either extract SongIterator from the IDispatch or to get it from the ISDBDatabase object. This works from Python with WIN32COM so I think I must have a fundamental misunderstanding of something.

If anyone is able to point me in a helpful direction I would really appreciate it.

Thanks in advance

Re: Using the COM interface with VS2017 and plain C++

by dplummer » Tue Jun 12, 2018 11:15 am

Many thanks petrCBR,

With a bit of tweaking that did the trick. Here is a working fragment:

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	CoInitialize(NULL);
	ISDBApplication *pSDB;
	HRESULT hr = CoCreateInstance(CLSID_SDBApplication, NULL, CLSCTX_LOCAL_SERVER, IID_ISDBApplication, reinterpret_cast<void**>(&pSDB));
	if (hr!=S_OK) {
		printf("Failed to create instance: %x\n", hr);
		return;
	}

	// Keep opened instance running after disconnect
	pSDB->put_ShutdownAfterDisconnect(false);    

	// Start the current track playing
	ISDBPlayer* pPlayer;
	pSDB->get_Player(&pPlayer);
	pPlayer->Play();
Best regards

Dave

Re: Using the COM interface with VS2017 and plain C++

by PetrCBR » Mon Jun 11, 2018 5:03 am

Probably something like this could work ?

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ISDB *pSDB;
hr = CoCreateInstance(CLSID_SDB, NULL, CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER, IID_SDB, reinterpret_cast<void**>(&pSDB));

Using the COM interface with VS2017 and plain C++

by dplummer » Sat Jun 09, 2018 12:26 pm

All,

I know that the COM interface is deprecated and also appreciate that C++ is rather long in the tooth but I am where I am, trying to port some existing Python code that works with win32com into an existing c++ console application developed under Visual Studio 2017.

So far I have generated an IDL file from MediaMonkey.exe (4.1.20) and (after addition of some forward definitions) got it to compile .h and .c files which I have added to my project.

My problem now is that I cannot work out how to instantiate an SDB object to start working with.

I was expecting something like: SongsDB::SDBApplication SDB = new SongsDB::SDBApplication();
But SongsDB is not recognised

I have also tried using #import on the MM executable but my .tld file is failing to compile because various terms (such as EOF) have been #defined elsewhere and generate errors.

If someone could give me some pointers please I would be very grateful.

Many thanks
Dave

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