Re: Passing array of BSTR from JavaScript to VC++

From:
"Roman Ryl..." <ryltsov@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.atl
Date:
7 May 2006 09:30:45 -0700
Message-ID:
<1147019445.231170.307030@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>
Igor,

Are you sure about SAFEARRAYs of any type? I tried to check and my
sample failed:

ATL code:
http://blog.luxriot.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/JScript%20Variant%20Arrays.zip

JScript:
===
Creator = WScript.CreateObject("JScriptVariantArrays.ArrayCreator");
try
{
  Array1 = Creator.Create(8); // VT_BSTR
  Array2 = new VBArray(Array1);
  for(Index = Array2.lbound(); Index <= Array2.ubound(); Index++)
    WScript.Echo(Index.toString() + ": " + Array2.getItem(Index));
}
catch(Error)
{
  WScript.Echo("VT_BSTR: " + Error.message);
}
try
{
  Array3 = Creator.Create(12); // VT_VARIANT
  Array4 = new VBArray(Array3);
  for(Index = Array4.lbound(); Index <= Array4.ubound(); Index++)
    WScript.Echo(Index.toString() + ": " + Array4.getItem(Index));
}
catch(Error)
{
  WScript.Echo("VT_VARIANT: " + Error.message);
}
===

JScript output:
===
Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.6
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1996-2001. All rights reserved.

VT_BSTR: VBArray expected
0: Element 0
1: Element 1
2: Element 2
3: Element 3
4: Element 4
5: Element 5
6: Element 6
7: Element 7
8: Element 8
9: Element 9
===

The script can handle VT_ARRAY | VT_VARIANT but it does not accept
VT_ARRAY | VT_BSTR.

Roman

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