Re: Dynamic 2-dimensional array as parameter for COM method?

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From: Alexander Nickolov
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 00:00

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I also would recommend safe arrays. VB is incapable of handling
C-style arrays. As for the C++ side - you have only to write two
convertor methods between your array class and safe array...

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David Morgenlender wrote in message
<36ba2e2a.141530911@enews.newsguy.com>...
>Jyrki,
>
>>In IDL specify just VARIANT.
>>
>>Use VARIANT of type VT_ARRAY | VT_xxx. Make parray of the
>>VARIANT to point to a SAFEARRAY. SAFEARRAY may contain
>>more than one dimension.
>
>Thanks for the suggestion.  I was hoping to avoid SAFEARRAY, because it's a
pain
>to use in C++.  Also, I vaguely recall running into some kind of
compatibility
>problem when I tried using it in the past, but I don't recall the details.
>Maybe it's incompatible with an IUnknown interface.  But I might play
around
>with this, if I can't come up with something easier on the C++ side.
>
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>Dave Morgenlender
>e-mail: dmorgen@alum.mit.edu
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From: "Alexander Nickolov" <agnickolov@geocities.com>
Subject: Re: Dynamic 2-dimensional array as parameter for COM method?
Date: 1999/01/27
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