Re: put property and SAFEARRAY of UDTs
Drew <dam@dam.dam> wrote:
I'm attempting to pass a SAFEARRAY of UDTs to a put property. I've
successfully implemented the get property but the put property gives
me:
"Function or interface marked as restricted, or the function uses an
Automation type not supported in Visual Basic"
Can this be done? VS6, SP6
' VB syntax
MyObj.MyProperty = UDTArray
For some reason, VB doesn't like SAFEARRAY parameters in IDL, but is
fine with pointers to SAFEARRAY. For example:
// ***** Bad ****
// IDL
HRESULT put_array([in] SAFEARRAY(long) newValue);
// C++
STDMETHODIMP put_array(SAFEARRAY* newValue);
// ***** Good ****
// IDL
HRESULT put_array([in] SAFEARRAY(long)* newValue);
// C++
STDMETHODIMP put_array(SAFEARRAY** newValue);
This extra level of indirection is technically unnecessary, but is
needed to keep VB happy.
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