Instantiating another CoClass from a CoClass method in the same component

[G Raven]

Dear fellow CPians, I have a simple COM component with two coclasses. I'd like to be able to instantiate one CoClass from a method of the other CoClass and be able to access the instantiated CoClasse's methods directly, and not through its interface (so I can supply it with some object data, not only basic data types). Is there a way to do this? There should be, as the two CoClasses are under the same application and library. I only know the CoCreateInstance method, but with this method I only have access to the interface for the new created object. Thanks in advance for your time with this. Best regards. G. Raven

[Milton Karimbekallil]

Yes, U can use CComObject class for this. Suppose u have a collection class CTables of CTable. CTables has a method called Item which is supposd to rtn a CTable object and we need to initialize a private member called Ordinal in CTable. So the Item method of CTables will be STDMETHODIMP CTables::Item(ITable **pT) { CComObject *objTable; objTable->CreateInstance(&objTable); objTable->Ordinal = 117; *pT= NULL; objTable->QueryInterface(IID_ITable, reinterpret_cast<void**>(pT) ); return S_OK; } does this make sence....mil10

[G Raven]

Thank you very much, Mil10. This makes perfect sense and is exactly what I was looking for. Regards. G. Raven