Is this a good way to manage initializations of COM?
- by BillyONeal
Hello everyone :)
I'm very new to anything involving Component Object Model, and I'm wondering if this method of managing calls to CoInitalize/CoUninitalize makes sense:
COM.hpp:
#pragma once
namespace WindowsAPI { namespace ComponentObjectModel {
class COM
{
COM();
~COM();
public:
static void Setup();
};
}}
COM.cpp:
#include <Windows.h>
#include "COM.hpp"
namespace WindowsAPI { namespace ComponentObjectModel {
COM::COM()
{
if (CoInitializeEx(NULL, COINIT_APARTMENTTHREADED) != S_OK) throw std::runtime_error("Couldn't start COM!");
}
COM::~COM()
{
CoUninitialize();
}
void COM::Setup()
{
static COM instance;
}
}}
Then any component that needs COM just calls COM::Setup() and forgets about it.
Does this make sense or am I breaking any "rules" of COM?
