According to the C++ standard, the new operator should throw std::bad_alloc if it fails. This will typically happen if your process has run out of memory. However, this isn’t the case if your program uses the (rather outdated) Microsoft Foundation Classes. In this post, we’ll look at what’s going on, and what you can do about it.
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I’ve been working on an MFC project which embeds a basic web-browser component in a dialog, in the form of a Microsoft Web Browser ActiveX component. (I know… these are ancient technologies… but sometimes you’ve got to work with what’s available on a project!)
Technically, the control hooks into whatever version of Internet Explorer (IE) you’re running on the system. However, it always seemed to fall-back on IE7 emulation mode for us, meaning a lot of our modern standards-compliant HTML wouldn’t work properly. Thankfully, there is a way to fix this problem, although it’s far from obvious!
Read more Changing the emulation mode of the Microsoft Web Browser ActiveX control