Re: How to return multiple values from a function

From:
"Victor Bazarov" <v.Abazarov@comAcast.net>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Fri, 4 Aug 2006 08:36:08 -0400
Message-ID:
<eavevr$2mg$1@news.datemas.de>
Kumar wrote:

 Hi,

             I am facing a problem with the basic fundamentals of the
Cpp.


And we're facing a problem of excessive whitespace use... :-)

 I am creating a win32 dll, where it has some methods. One method will
return multiple values. So how can I return multiple values?


Wrap them in a struct and return a struct. Wrap them in a struct and have
the method take a reference to it (or a pointer to it), fill it in, return
'bool' to indicate the validity of your changes. Have several arguments
of reference type or pointer type serve as the "in/out" or simply "out" kind
of arguments. There is always more than one way to skin a cat.

 These return multiple values have to be used in the VB application.


Then you probably are better with 'in/out' arguments.

 I can do this by using ref with in Cpp. But don't know how the
pointer value persists between different types of languages.


You probably need to use 'VARIANT'.

V
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