Variant, SafeArray.....etc

From:
 Simply_Red <Simply.Red75@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:23:12 -0700
Message-ID:
<1185902592.392056.142130@57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com>
Sorry for multiposting, i posted it in comp.lang.c++, and i'm not sure
that it was the right group to ask(still havent the answer).

I'm using VC6.
i have a DLL written in VC6 and used by VB6( and VBA Excel),
i use SafeArray as parameter, the array is created(declared), in VB
and C++ fill it.

now i need VC++ to get an array of array of different sizes, and VB
can't know the size of these arrays, so the arrays will be 'created'
in VC.

here the code that i use(and it crashes):

void __declspec(dllexport) CALLBACK Remplir_table(LPSAFEARRAY FAR
*tab1)
{
        VARIANT HUGEP * CONTENU;
        SAFEARRAYBOUND sabound[1]; // 1-D array
        SAFEARRAY FAR* psa = NULL; // SAFEARRAY structure pointer
        VARIANT TEMPORARY;

        VariantInit(&TEMPORARY);

        SafeArrayAccessData(*tab1, (void HUGEP**)&CONTENU);

        sabound[0].lLbound = 0;
        sabound[0].cElements = 2;

        for (int i = 0; i<2; i++)
        {
                psa = SafeArrayCreate( VT_R4, 1, sabound );
                float HUGEP* ResData;
                SafeArrayAccessData(psa, (void HUGEP**)&ResData);
                ResData[0] = 1.5; //just for test
                ResData[1] = 0.75;//just for test
                V_VT(&TEMPORARY ) = VT_ARRAY | VT_R4;
                V_ARRAY(&TEMPORARY) = psa;
                SafeArrayUnaccessData(psa);
                VariantCopy(&CONTENU[i],&TEMPORARY);

        }
        SafeArrayUnaccessData(*tab1);

}

the vb side:
Dim tab1(1) As Variant
Call Remplir_table(tab1)

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