Re: #import ignores enums?

From:
"Giovanni Dicanio" <giovanni.dicanio@invalid.it>
Newsgroups:
comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32,microsoft.public.vc.mfc,microsoft.public.win32.programmer.kernel
Date:
Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:23:01 +0200
Message-ID:
<OC2SYPODIHA.5712@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>
"Chris Shearer Cooper" <chrisnews@sc3.net> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:13gv0nnpht6ln60@corp.supernews.com...

Sorry for the cross-post, but I have absolutely no idea which newsgroup
this question should go into ...

I have a DLL that I am creating in C++, using the Microsoft attributed
stuff, and it contains an enum like this in my H file:

[export]
enum eInterfaces
{
eDoodad = 1,
eFlipper = 2
};


Hi Chris,

first of all, I think that the good newsgroup for you to post your question
could be microsoft.public.vc.atl (there are COM and ATL really experts there
like Igor T. and Brian M.).

My advice is that you should not consider the attributed thing... it's
better to go with IDL, IMHO.

I think that you could try in IDL something like this (I've not tested):

typedef [public] enum
{
 InterfaceDoodad = 1,
 InterfaceFlipper = 2
} eInterfaces;

Note: I think that enum's in IDL are threated as unsigned short (16 bits),
so values outside the range [0; 32,767 (= 2^16-1) ] could cause problems. If
you want 32 bits unsigned integers for enum values, you should use the
[v1_enum] attribute, e.g.

typedef [v1_enum] enum
{
....

Giovanni

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