Re: VB Activex dll in VC++ with array parameter

From:
Andrea Visinoni <andrea.visinoni@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Fri, 4 Mar 2011 00:18:22 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<383d4013-c307-4ab7-8636-764f09510240@n11g2000vbm.googlegroups.com>
The problem is that this is DLL come from a device and the only thing
i have is a useless pdf with
this prototype:
FindQpods (By Ref sSNArray(0 to 32)) [=lRtnVal]

and this info from a IDL file generated by OLE viewer (analyzing the
DLL)

[id(0x60030002)]
        HRESULT FindQpods(
                        [in, out] SAFEARRAY(BSTR)* SNArray,
                        [out, retval] long* );

the automatic procedure of VC++ 6.0 creating an IDispatch class to
interface to the DLL, failed on all the methods having arrays as
parameter.
so the truth is i really don't know how to achieve the creation of
this missing method.

yes passing "array" var to the Invokehelper was my mistake, but i
still have the error.

any hints are really welcome :)

On 3 Mar, 17:25, Joseph M. Newcomer <newco...@flounder.com> wrote:

See below...
On Thu, 3 Mar 2011 00:54:08 -0800 (PST), Andrea Visinoni <andrea.visin...=

@gmail.com>

wrote:

On 2 Mar, 16:35, Andrea Visinoni <andrea.visin...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm trying to use a VB Activex dll in VC++ 6.0 following this
procedure:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/194873/en-us

i successfully create my idispatch class but some members are not
being correctly created due to:

method 'GetReading' not emitted because of invalid return type or
parameter type

this happen with all the methods with array as parameters, the only
thing i know about this method is that in VB is like this:

GetReading (sSerNum, By Ref dRdgArray(0 to 3))

so i'ts an array of double, i want to manually add it.

Any hints?


I did some steps...

this is the prototype of the method as seen in ole/com object viewer:

[id(0x60030002)]
       HRESULT FindQpods(
                       [in, out] SAFEARRAY(BSTR=

)* SNArray,

                       [out, retval] long* );

info by docs are: FindQpods (By Ref sSNArray(0 to 32)) [=lRtnVal]

this is how i'm trying to implement it into my dispatch class:

long _cQPod::FindQpods(SAFEARRAY *array)
{
   VARIANT pVarOut;


****
By convention, a 'p' prefix means it is a pointer. But it isn't. It=

 is a VARIANT, not a

PVARIANT. Which I suspect is the type you intended. So why the 'p' =

prefix?

****> VariantInit(&pVarOut);

   pVarOut.vt = VT_ARRAY|VT_BSTR|VT_BYREF;
   pVarOut.parray = array;


****
And where, exactly, ire these two variables used in the InvokeHelper? =

You give the

parameter type as VTS_VARIANT, and point to the array, but these other va=

lues you compute

do not appear anywhere in the list; instead, you pass the raw 'array' val=

ue. Wouldn't it

make more sense to pass &pVarOut as the last argument?

   long result;
   static BYTE parms[] = VTS_PVARIANT;//VTS_VARIANT;


*****
There is something completely deadly wrong about putting a static variabl=

e inside a

function definition. Do not ever do this. If a tool did this, it is=

 badly broken. Or,

if it is a constant, why doesn't it say
        const static BYTE parms[] = VTS_PVARIANT;
Note that you are telling it that you are passing a pointer-to-a-variant =

as the result

type, but what you pass it is a SAFEARRAY *, not a PVARIANT.

What is specified in your typelib for this function? Not in VB, but in=

 the typelib

itself? I can't read VB code (I once wrote a VB subroutine about 20 ye=

ars ago so I can't

comment on the syntax) so I have no idea how that translates to a typelib=

 definition.

*****

   InvokeHelper(0x60030002, DISPATCH_METHOD, VT_I4, (void*)&result,
parms, array);


****
I suspect this should be
        InvokeHelper(...as above.., parms, &pVarOut);
****> return result;

}

but i still get: Warning: constructing COleException, scode =
DISP_E_TYPEMISMATCH ($80020005).


****
Where do you get this warning? What line produces it? Which tool? =

 Does it really put

that $ in there?
Joseph M. Newcomer [MVP]
email: newco...@flounder.com
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