Hi all,

I am working on a dialog-based MFC application, which consists of multiple property pages. From one of the property pages, I am trying to launch a dialog box which contains an ActiveX control.

This is currently not working and the application exits with an access violation error when I call DoModal for the dialog. On debugging, I see this is due to AfxGetThread() returning NULL in AfxOleInit(). A subsequent statement in AfxOleInit() tries to dereference this NULL pointer. This does not happen if I launch the dialog-box from the application's InitInstance() function instead of a property page or if I add the control to the property page itself. I have made sure that the control is registered and that I call AfxEnableControlContainer() from the application's InitInstance() function.

I am using Visual Studio C++ .NET.

Is there something else that I have missed? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Priya

I just realized that this is happening because I am launching the dialog with the ActiveX control from a thread spawned by the parent property page's message thread. Everything works fine if I launch it directly from one of the event handlers of the property page. Could someone please tell me if there is a way to solve this?

Thanks,
Priya