[Ace-users] Re: [ciao-users] Invoking push_event on a component

[Sowayan, Abdullah (N-DUA)]

Santos,
 
>I'm trying to invoke the push_event method on a component using the 
>following code changed from the Hello example: 
>
>CORBA::Object_var obj = orb->string_to_object (ior); 
>
>
>Components::EventConsumerBase_var consumer = 
>Components::EventConsumerBase::_narrow(obj.in ()); 
>Hello::TimeOut_var event = new OBV_Hello::TimeOut; 
>
>consumer->push_event(event); 
>
>
>I'm getting the ior from a file. It happens that the "obj" is filled
right, 
>but the "consumer" I'm getting has a null value. What I am doing wrong?


Hmmm, if after orb->string_to_object you get a CORBA::Object that is not
nil, and you try to narrow it to Components::EventConsumerBase and the
result is a nil object reference, that means that the object is not of
Components::EventConsumerBase type.

Thanks,
Abdul