Tobias Oberstein wrote:
> and still it's a mystery to me (even after reading the sources) how
> in this particular case the single implementation (XPCOM class) behind
> this CLSID gets information about the ?type=XXX it was instantiated for.
It doesn't. The functions of the class probably use their arguments to
check which mime type should be handled.
>
>>The contract ID generally exists in a source file. One source file
>>could implement many components.
>>
>
> seems we're talking about different things. I tried to make the following
> point: I don't want to write one implementation per parameter combination.
> I want to have one implementing class, taking the parameters either in
> a constructor
[...]
> or have a Init(int param1, int param2) method _automatically_ called
> with the values the client provided implicitely in the ContractID.
Well, this is not possible yet. You'll have to manually call your Init
method.
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