Re: PropertyBag (?) implementation

From:
"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.atl
Date:
Mon, 20 Nov 2006 10:58:55 -0500
Message-ID:
<ObSbJzLDHHA.992@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl>
Jason S <jmsachs@gmail.com> wrote:

(b) implement an object (is this IPropertyBag?) which has
"setprop"/"getprop" methods:
X.setprop(BSTR n,VARIANT v) ==> sets property "n" to value v
X.getprop(BSTR n) ==> returns v


If you want the object to be script-friendly, I recommend implementing
IDispatch and, for the cases where you want to be able to add arbitrary
properties at run-time, IDispatchEx.

(c) am I allowed to implement IDispatch by constructing a type library
/ type info on-the-fly?


Yes. Moreover, you are allowed not to support type info at all. Scripts
never read it anyway.

e.g. I have no static IDL methods besides
IDispatch, but when constructing my object, I give it fields X, Y, and
Z, and return type info so the fields put_X, put_Y, put_Z, get_X,
get_Y, get_Z are implemented by handling Invoke() correctly?


I'm not sure what type info has to do with implementing Invoke,
correctly or otherwise. Just implement it any way you want.
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