safearray

I'm trying to use a COM component with the following method: HRESULT _stdcall Run( [in] SAFEARRAY(BSTR) paramNames, [in] SAFEARRAY(VARIANT *) paramValues ); How can I create in C/C++ the paramValues array? Adding to the answers above for reference by future readers: In IDL, SAFEARRAY(...) means a pointer to an array descriptor. But in C++, SAFEARRAY means an array descriptor. So IDL's SAFEARRAY(...) is really C++'s SAFEARRAY * . This confused me to no end. To make things even more interesting, VB always passes arrays by reference. So VB's () As Long is SAFEARRAY<int32_t> ** in C++. (I don't

I want to create a SAFEARRAY of type byte in Windows JScript. Can you give me some example code or point me in the right direction? Hacky but stripting.dictionary::items is returned as a safe array so in some circumstances (ADSI queries) the following works, however YMMV significantly in trying this with binary data. function getSafeArray(jsArr) { var dict = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.Dictionary"); for (var i = 0; i < jsArr.length; i++) dict.add(i, jsArr[i]); return dict.Items(); } //to a safe array var safearr = getSafeArray([11,22,33]); //back to a js array var jsArr = new VBArray(safearr)

how to iterate through C++ safearray pointer to pointer and access its elements. I tried to replicate the solution posted by Lim Bio Liong http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vcgeneral/thread/022dba14-9abf-4872-9f43-f4fc05bd2602 but the strangest thing is that the IDL method signature comes out to be HRESULT __stdcall GetTestStructArray([out] SAFEARRAY ** test_struct_array); instead of HRESULT __stdcall GetTestStructArray([out] SAFEARRAY(TestStruct)* test_struct_array); Any ideas? thanks in advance Safearrays are created with SafeArrayCreate or SafeArrayCreateVector , but as you ask

i am trying to call a method of COM object, where one of the documented parameters is an "array of bytes ". The actual declartion depends on the per-language documentation you're looking at: in C# language: byte[] TransformFinalBlock( byte[] inputBuffer, int inputOffset, int inputCount ) in C++ language; array<unsigned char>^ TransformFinalBlock( array<unsigned char>^ inputBuffer, int inputOffset, int inputCount ) in VB language: Function TransformFinalBlock ( _ inputBuffer As Byte(), _ inputOffset As Integer, _ inputCount As Integer _ ) As Byte() in F# language: abstract TransformFinalBlock :