Re: Newbie adding COM components to a project

From:
zeidman@hotmail.com
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language,microsoft.public.vc.ide_general
Date:
22 Jul 2006 12:07:34 -0700
Message-ID:
<1153595254.314944.163980@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com>
I have made some progress I think.

I did a rename as below and it reduced the number of errors from 130 or
so to 21.

#import "bbreapi7.tld" rename("EOF","EndOfFile") rename
("GetUserName","MyGetUserName")

I have tried to do the same with the remaining identifiers but it does
not help. The error messages are now:

c:\testproj\testproj\debug\bbreapi7.tlh(44666) : warning C4183:
'GetDocumentLeft': missing return type; assumed to be a member function
returning 'int'
c:\testproj\testproj\debug\bbreapi7.tlh(44667) : error C2146: syntax
error : missing ';' before identifier 'GetDocumentTop'
c:\testproj\testproj\debug\bbreapi7.tlh(44667) : error C4430: missing
type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int
c:\testproj\testproj\debug\bbreapi7.tlh(44667) : error C4430: missing
type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int
c:\testproj\testproj\debug\bbreapi7.tlh(44667) : warning C4183:
'GetDocumentTop': missing return type; assumed to be a member function
returning 'int'
c:\testproj\testproj\debug\bbreapi7.tlh(76997) : error C2143: syntax
error : missing ';' before 'BBREAPI7::IBBShellHost::GetDocumentLeft'
c:\testproj\testproj\debug\bbreapi7.tlh(76997) : error C4430: missing
type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int
c:\testproj\testproj\debug\bbreapi7.tlh(76997) : error C2497:
'DispHTMLDocumentPtr' : 'implementation_key' can only be applied to
function declarations
c:\testproj\testproj\debug\bbreapi7.tlh(76997) : error C4430: missing
type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int
c:\testproj\testproj\debug\bbreapi7.tlh(76998) : error C2143: syntax
error : missing ';' before 'BBREAPI7::IBBShellHost::GetDocumentTop'
c:\testproj\testproj\debug\bbreapi7.tlh(76998) : error C4430: missing
type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int
c:\testproj\testproj\debug\bbreapi7.tlh(76998) : error C2497:
'DispHTMLDocumentPtr' : 'implementation_key' can only be applied to
function declarations
c:\testproj\testproj\debug\bbreapi7.tlh(76998) : error C2086: 'int
BBREAPI7::DispHTMLDocumentPtr' : redefinition
        c:\testproj\testproj\debug\bbreapi7.tlh(76997) : see
declaration of 'BBREAPI7::DispHTMLDocumentPtr'
c:\testproj\testproj\debug\bbreapi7.tlh(76998) : error C4430: missing
type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int

The first error corresponds to the following code:

struct __declspec(uuid("659adb4f-33ca-11d3-9062-00c04f75d3b8"))
IBBShellHost : IDispatch
{
    //
    // Property data
    //

    __declspec(property(get=GetDocumentMain))
    IDispatchPtr DocumentMain;
    __declspec(property(get=GetDocumentTop))
    DispHTMLDocumentPtr DocumentTop;
    __declspec(property(get=GetDocumentLeft))
    DispHTMLDocumentPtr DocumentLeft;
    __declspec(property(get=GetSessionContext))
    IBBSessionContextPtr SessionContext;

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

    IBBSessionContextPtr GetSessionContext ( );
    HRESULT LoadPage (
        VARIANT * vURL,
        VARIANT * vArgs );
    DispHTMLDocumentPtr GetDocumentLeft ( );
    DispHTMLDocumentPtr GetDocumentTop ( );
    IDispatchPtr GetDocumentMain ( );
    HRESULT getClientArea (
        long * lx,
        long * ly,
        long * lw,
        long * lHt );
    HRESULT DocEvent (
        enum BBShellDocEvents lEventID,
        VARIANT * vArgs );
    HRESULT TipOfTheDay (
        BSTR * sImg,
        BSTR * sTipText );

    //
    // Raw methods provided by interface
    //

      virtual HRESULT __stdcall get_SessionContext (
        /*[out,retval]*/ struct IBBSessionContext * * __MIDL_0146 ) =
0;
      virtual HRESULT __stdcall raw_LoadPage (
        /*[in,out]*/ VARIANT * vURL,
        /*[in,out]*/ VARIANT * vArgs ) = 0;
      virtual HRESULT __stdcall get_DocumentLeft (
        /*[out,retval]*/ struct DispHTMLDocument * * __MIDL_0147 ) = 0;
      virtual HRESULT __stdcall get_DocumentTop (
        /*[out,retval]*/ struct DispHTMLDocument * * __MIDL_0148 ) = 0;
      virtual HRESULT __stdcall get_DocumentMain (
        /*[out,retval]*/ IDispatch * * __MIDL_0149 ) = 0;
      virtual HRESULT __stdcall raw_getClientArea (
        /*[in,out]*/ long * lx,
        /*[in,out]*/ long * ly,
        /*[in,out]*/ long * lw,
        /*[in,out]*/ long * lHt ) = 0;
      virtual HRESULT __stdcall raw_DocEvent (
        /*[in]*/ enum BBShellDocEvents lEventID,
        /*[in,out]*/ VARIANT * vArgs ) = 0;
      virtual HRESULT __stdcall raw_TipOfTheDay (
        /*[in]*/ BSTR * sImg,
        /*[in]*/ BSTR * sTipText ) = 0;
};

Any help is really appreciated

Thanks

David

zeidman@hotmail.com wrote:

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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