Hello out there,
is there any possibility for me to catch or avoid crashes caused within
unmanaged code?
The situation:
I'm writing a managed wrapper in MC++, and in there I use some
unmanaged COM methods for creating thumbnails.
The problem: One special line may cause a crash, and subsequently
blocks my whole application.
The line looks like this:
// unmanaged:
IExtractImage * peiURL = NULL; // use shell interface
HR_TRY(hr = peiURL->Extract(pThumb nail)); // application hangs in
this line sometimes
So is there any way for me to avoid blocking the whole app?
Normal exception-handling won't do since this com-method doesn't throw
any exceptions.
Maybe I could call this function in a separate thread, and if it
doesn't respond within a certain time I should kill the thread
programatically ?
Are there other ways out there?
Thanks in advance,
TheLetti 3 1408
Extracting thumbnails from a background thread is a good solution from the
performance point of view as well. Thumbnail extraction can be quite slow
for some items.
- Atul
Sky Software http://www.ssware.com/
Drop-In Windows Explorer-Like Shell Browsing UI for your apps.
"TheLetti" <th************ @gmx.net> wrote in message
news:11******** **************@ g44g2000cwa.goo glegroups.com.. . Hello out there,
is there any possibility for me to catch or avoid crashes caused within unmanaged code?
The situation: I'm writing a managed wrapper in MC++, and in there I use some unmanaged COM methods for creating thumbnails.
The problem: One special line may cause a crash, and subsequently blocks my whole application.
The line looks like this:
// unmanaged: IExtractImage * peiURL = NULL; // use shell interface HR_TRY(hr = peiURL->Extract(pThumb nail)); // application hangs in this line sometimes
So is there any way for me to avoid blocking the whole app? Normal exception-handling won't do since this com-method doesn't throw any exceptions. Maybe I could call this function in a separate thread, and if it doesn't respond within a certain time I should kill the thread programatically ? Are there other ways out there?
Thanks in advance,
TheLetti
Hi Atul,
thank you for your suggestions. Indeed, I have already tried executing
this thumbnail code within a separate thread, and this works now for
me!
greez,
TheLetti
Hi again,
while implementing thumbnail extraction within a seperate thread, I
encountered another problem:
I'm using the System::Threadi ng::Thread class to put my code into a
thread.
After starting the thread, which extracts the thumbnail actually, I
call myThread->Join(timeout )
This method returns either if the thread has terminated successfully,
or after a specified timeout.
In case of the timeout the thread hangs in my unmanaged code, and so
the thread stays alive.
All I want to do now is to terminate this stubborn thread.
Unfortunately, calling myThread->Abort() doesn't do the trick, because
it hangs in unmanaged code.
The documentation says this:
"If a thread makes an unmanaged call into the operating system that has
blocked the thread in unmanaged code, the runtime will not take control
of it for System.Threadin g.Thread.Interr upt or
System.Threadin g.Thread.Abort. In the case of
System.Threadin g.Thread.Abort, the runtime marks the thread for Abort
and takes control of it when it re-enters managed code."
So the thread couldn't be aborted, because it never returns to managed
code again.
My question now is, if there is ANY possibility to terminate the thread
anyways?
thx in advance,
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