Re: Using the VB/VBA Collection class in C++ code

From:
"Alexander Nickolov" <agnickolov@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.atl
Date:
Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:39:27 -0700
Message-ID:
<eNm9cLFzGHA.4648@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>
Hmm, the code looks fine to me... You can try using 0x409
for the locale (e.g. US English), though that shouldn't make
difference.

Try accessing the Item property then. This has DISPID_VALUE (0)
and has a single VARIANT argument (parameterized property)
so you have to supply it in DISPPARAMS. By passing a VT_BSTR
VARIANT containing one of the keys you should get the corresponding
value.

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"Rob Perkins" <finitedev@community.nospam> wrote in message
news:4ljba4F26f3tU1@individual.net...

Alexander Nickolov wrote:

Well, yes, I should have spotted it the first time... You are
passing NULL for DISPPARAMS, hence your E_INVALIDARG.
You must pass a valid structure specifying no parameters.


OK, the code now looks like this:

In VB:

Private Sub Command2_Click()
   Dim c As New Collection, m As New MyATLObject

   c.Add "hi", "1"
   c.Add "there", "2"

   Set m.Collection = c
End Sub

And the PropertyPutRef:

STDMETHODIMP MyATLObject::putref_Collection(IDispatch* newVal)
{
   HRESULT hr = S_OK;
   VARIANT result;
   VariantInit(&result);

   DISPPARAMS dp;
   dp.cArgs=0;
   dp.cNamedArgs=0;
   dp.rgdispidNamedArgs=NULL;
   dp.rgvarg=NULL;

   EXCEPINFO ei;

   UINT puArgErr

   hr = newVal->Invoke(DISPID_NEWENUM,
       IID_NULL,
       (LCID)MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_NEUTRAL,SUBLANG_NEUTRAL),
SORT_DEFAULT),
       DISPATCH_PROPERTYGET,
       &dp,
       &result,
       &ei,
       &puArgErr);

   return S_OK;
}

That's the body of code which is returning "Member not found" off the
Invoke method.

Rob

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