Re: use customized data type in IDispatch.Invoke

From:
"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:36:39 -0400
Message-ID:
<#BBCKtEHJHA.3504@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl>
"George" <George@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9F0F4707-4572-4D46-9C7A-3C0489950C4B@microsoft.com

struct Foo {
long abc;
VARIANT goo;
};

struct Goo {
long type;
};

Foo foo;

VARIANT vntfoo;
VARIANT vntgoo;

// construct inner variant goo
hr = GetRecordInfoFromGuids(LIBID_MyLib, 1, 0, 0x409, uuidof(Goo),
&pRI);


pRI is never declared. I assume it's a IRecordInfo*.

VariantInit(&vntgoo)


Missing semicolon.

vntgoo.vt = VT_RECORD;
vntgoo.pvRecord = &foo.goo;


&foo.goo is a VARIANT*, not a Goo*. A VARIANT of type VT_RECORD is
supposed to hold a pointer to UDT, not a pointer to another VARIANT.

Don't you find it strange that you don't actually have an instance of
Goo anywhere in your code?

I am confused about IRecordInfo Interface. My question is for all the
same interface type instances, they all have the same IRecordInfo?


What's "interface type instance"?

As should be obvious from GetRecordInfoFromGuids call, an instance of
IRecordInfo is uniquely identified by a LIBID of the type library and a
GUID of the struct defined in that type library.
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