Implementing Automation Properties and Methods

AutoClik: Automation, Lesson 3

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By the end of Step 1, AppWizard has enabled AutoClik to work as an Automation server. Also, AutoClik’s basic behavior has been completely implemented. With the help of ClassWizard, you can easily add properties and methods to the dispatch maps.

In Step 2, you will:

• Implement properties of a dispatch interface by using the Get and Set methods, and by exposing a member variable as a property in AutoClik’s document dispatch interface.
  
  
• Implement methods of a dispatch interface using RefreshWindow, ShowWindow, and SetAllProps.

In the course of doing this, you’ll also learn about MFC dispatch maps.