not able to acesss data through rchunk

[shivsharad]

hi all,

i created a class and stores the pointer in global rchunk,

process 1
class CMyClassublic CBase
{
public
cMyClass2* C;
}
CMyClass* iPtr;
class CMyClass2ublic CBase
{
TInt iRef;
}


m storing iPtr in rchunk
now i want to access the data of the class in some other process
now when i try to acess in
process 2
TInt ref = iPtr->iPtr->iRef
ref am getting "0" alwaz ,whatever be the value i stores in process 1


please give some coomment

[shivsharad]

i just want to add,this is working fine on emulator,but not on device

[Paul.Todd]

There are three problems with this:

a) You need to store the contents of the pointer in the chunk as well. The pointer references a block of memory owned by another process and so process isolation will prevent access to the contents of the other pointer. Basic if (p != NULL) DoSomething(); is ok, but if (p != NULL) p->DoSomething is not ok
b) You need to prevent concurrent access so the two threads/processes do not overlap reading and writing of the data
c) When you call RChunk::Base you get different values in different processes.

See the url below for more info
http://library.forum.nokia.com/index...nks.guide.html

[shivsharad]

thanks todd,i think this is the problem,mean i need to copy the second class pointer also on the chunk

[Paul.Todd]

As I said in the other link, what you have to do is:
Lock the chunk so only you have access to it (using a semaphore)
Copy the data into the chunk as the data (normally via ExternalizeL)- NO POINTERS OR HANDLES ALLOWED!!!!
Unlock the chunk
Tell the other process to recreate the object, normally this is via InternalizeL

Remember the RChunk::Base remaps the pointers to the process so any internal pointers in one address will not neccessarily correspond to pointers in another process space.

Chunks are designed to pass memory block blocks around, not raw structures or pointers and especially not virtual method tables. Good uses for chunks include pictures and files. Bad examples include C++ objects, linked lists, pointer arrays.

Use client/server, thats what it is there for

[kingkiko]

Hi all,

i have a large structured file which is about 4.5 MB and i want to load it once and share it between different processe that using my dll, so i'm trying to use global heap chunk through the User method but i couldn't acheive it and what i understood is that i have to create a global chunck and write to or read from but i didn't find any example indicates how could i write and read from the chunk also i don't need to copy the data from the chunk to other process can i switch to it directly

Thanks in advance