Re: Newbie adding COM components to a project

From:
zeidman@hotmail.com
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language,microsoft.public.vc.ide_general
Date:
21 Jul 2006 12:26:34 -0700
Message-ID:
<1153509994.282191.233440@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>
This is the lines around line number 7211:

struct __declspec(uuid("914b06bd-7e4c-11d2-bcef-00e0290e1347"))
IBBQueryRow : IDispatch
{
    //
    // Property data
    //

    __declspec(property(get=GetInstanceHandle))
    long InstanceHandle;
    __declspec(property(get=GetField,put=PutField))
    _variant_t Field[];
    __declspec(property(get=GetFieldName))
    _bstr_t FieldName[];
    __declspec(property(get=GetFieldCount))
    long FieldCount;
    __declspec(property(get=GetBOF))
    VARIANT_BOOL BOF;
    __declspec(property(get=GetEOF))
    VARIANT_BOOL EOF;
    __declspec(property(get=GetRowNum))
    long RowNum;
    __declspec(property(get=GetQueryName))
    _bstr_t QueryName;
    __declspec(property(get=GetQueryID))
    long QueryID;
    __declspec(property(get=GetQueryType))
    enum bbQueryTypes QueryType;

    //
    // Wrapper methods for error-handling
    //

    VARIANT_BOOL GetEOF ( );
    VARIANT_BOOL GetBOF ( );
    long GetFieldCount ( );
    _bstr_t GetFieldName (
        const _variant_t & Index );
    void PutField (
        const _variant_t & Index,
        const _variant_t & __MIDL_0404 );
    _variant_t GetField (
        const _variant_t & Index );
    long GetInstanceHandle ( );
    HRESULT StopCallingMacro ( );
    long GetRowNum ( );
    _bstr_t GetQueryName ( );
    long GetQueryID ( );
    enum bbQueryTypes GetQueryType ( );

    //
    // Raw methods provided by interface
    //

      virtual HRESULT __stdcall get_EOF (
        /*[out,retval]*/ VARIANT_BOOL * __MIDL_0399 ) = 0;
      virtual HRESULT __stdcall get_BOF (
        /*[out,retval]*/ VARIANT_BOOL * __MIDL_0400 ) = 0;
      virtual HRESULT __stdcall get_FieldCount (
        /*[out,retval]*/ long * __MIDL_0401 ) = 0;
      virtual HRESULT __stdcall get_FieldName (
        /*[in]*/ VARIANT Index,
        /*[out,retval]*/ BSTR * __MIDL_0402 ) = 0;
      virtual HRESULT __stdcall put_Field (
        /*[in]*/ VARIANT Index,
        /*[in]*/ VARIANT __MIDL_0404 ) = 0;
      virtual HRESULT __stdcall get_Field (
        /*[in]*/ VARIANT Index,
        /*[out,retval]*/ VARIANT * __MIDL_0404 ) = 0;
      virtual HRESULT __stdcall get_InstanceHandle (
        /*[out,retval]*/ long * __MIDL_0405 ) = 0;
      virtual HRESULT __stdcall raw_StopCallingMacro ( ) = 0;
      virtual HRESULT __stdcall get_RowNum (
        /*[out,retval]*/ long * __MIDL_0406 ) = 0;
      virtual HRESULT __stdcall get_QueryName (
        /*[out,retval]*/ BSTR * __MIDL_0407 ) = 0;
      virtual HRESULT __stdcall get_QueryID (
        /*[out,retval]*/ long * __MIDL_0408 ) = 0;
      virtual HRESULT __stdcall get_QueryType (
        /*[out,retval]*/ enum bbQueryTypes * __MIDL_0409 ) = 0;
};

Line 7211 (where is complains about a '-' sign is:

VARIANT_BOOL EOF;

Line 7319 is the same.

Again, thanks for any help. I can supply you with the whole tlh file if
it is easier but it is over 3Mb so I won't post it here!

Thanks

David

Stuart Redmann wrote:

zeidman@hotmail.com wrote:

OK, I realise the stupid mistake I was making. I was doing an include
on the tlb and not import.

However when I now do import I still get the following errors. Does
anybody have any thoughts?

c:\documents and settings\david\my documents\visual studio
2005\projects\testproj\testproj\debug\bbreapi7.tlh(7211) : error C2059:
syntax error : '-'


[snipped the rest of the error messages]

That certainly seems strange to me that the generated type library
header should contain a minus out of place (all minus signs should
appear either in comments or in the uuid-annotations). Could you post us
the offending lines of bbreapi7.tlh, or is this confidential information?

Stuart

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