Re: How to pass [IN, OUT] parameter to ActiveX control from JavaScript or VBScript

From:
"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.atl
Date:
Sat, 12 Jul 2008 01:14:14 -0400
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"Lei Tang" <ltang@bdmetrics.com> wrote in message
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I have an ActiveX control written in ATL and I want to use that
control from a web page. The method I want to call from JavaScript
has a [IN, OUT] parameter, i.e. BSTR GetResults([in, out] long
*count). How do I pass the "count" parameter to the method from
script?


You can't. JavaScript can't handle [in, out] parameters at all, since it
can't pass parameters by reference. VBScript only supports [in, out]
VARIANT* (and then you don't need to do anything special - VBScript
passes all parameters by reference).

If you want scripts to be able to call your interface, you will have to
design script-friendly method signatures.
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