About COM initialization

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Original post by Herr Poffe
Howdy all! I am currently trying to implement direct sound in a game of mine and was thinking of the initialization of COM. The way my code looks at the moment I call "CoInitialize(NULL);" once for every sound object I wish to play. May this cause any problems or is it ok to call it as many times as I want? And also, must I call "CoUninitialize();" an equal amount of times or is one time enough?

I read a little bit of the documentation but I am still quite sure so I really would appreciate some help.

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		class CCoInitMTA
			{
			public:
				CCoInitMTA()
					{
					HRESULT hr;
					//If this is undefined, put "#define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0500"

					//alternatively, you can use  #define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0501 for XP

					// at the top of your StdAfx.h file - before *anything* else

					if(FAILED(hr=CoInitializeEx(NULL, COINIT_MULTITHREADED)))
						_com_issue_error(hr);
					}
				
				virtual ~CCoInitMTA()
					{
					CoUninitialize();
					}
			};

		class CCoInitSTA
			{
			public:
				CCoInitSTA()
					{
					HRESULT hr;
					if(FAILED(hr=CoInitialize(NULL)))
						_com_issue_error(hr);
					}
				
				virtual ~CCoInitSTA()
					{
					CoUninitialize();
					}
			};