Sink COM events without mapping dispids manually to methods

Question

I have an IConnectionPointContainer and know the connection point whose events I want to sink. Now I need to write a class containing callback methods for these events.

So basically I am doing this:

OleCheck((ExtIntf as IConnectionPointContainer).FindConnectionPoint(IID_IEvents, cp));
OleCheck(cp.Advise(MySink {<--this one I need}, Cookie));

I need to provide MySink and I know how to do it so that MyIntf.Invoke gets called. But I don't want to map dispids to event methods by hand.

That means I don't want to do this in my Invoke:

// Handle the event
case DispID of
  102   :  OnStatusTextChange(pdpParams^.rgvarg^[lpDispIds[0]].bstrval);
  104   :  OnDownloadComplete;
  105   :  OnCommandStateChange(pdpParams^.rgvarg^[lpDispIds[0]].lval,
                                pdpParams^.rgvarg^[lpDispIds[1]].vbool);
  106   :  OnDownloadBegin;
  108   :  OnProgressChange(pdpParams^.rgvarg^[lpDispIds[0]].lval,
                            pdpParams^.rgvarg^[lpDispIds[1]].lval);
  112   :  OnPropertyChange(pdpParams^.rgvarg^[lpDispIds[0]].bstrval);
  {... doh}

For the connection point IID_IEvents I have both the interface IEvents and the dispinterface declaration (from Delphi type library import). Can't I just implement IEvents somehow? I want a clean class containing methods each one being a callback for one of the events offered by the IID_IEvents connection point.

I have great hope that somebody knows maybe

• a base class I can inherit from that takes the job of calling my event methods
• a Delphi wizard that creates the proper class for me
• the tree I need to make my magic wand of to eventually master COM

Any tips?

Answer 1

TechVanguards has a tool that generates the code for you: COM Sink Event Generator.

You can also see my question; where i moaned about having to write what you're faced with writing.