Can wxVariant be used as a direct ("plugin") replacement for COleVariant?

[Dave Bee]

Everything that I read so far (including wxWidgets
source code) suggests that the answer is 'Yes!'.

I even found a nice article that lists wxWidgets
versions of MFC classes:

http://www.codeproject.com/library/wxwidgets.asp

However, before going ahead and doing a blind "search
& replace", I thought perhaps someone more experienced
know about a caveat or a fundamental difference that I
should be aware of when doing this porting.

For example, I know that COleVariant is derived from
win32's tagVARIANT and that internally it uses the
Win32 API function ::VariantCopy(). However,
wxWidgets, for portability reasons uses neither
tagVARIANT nor Win32's ::VariantCopy().

In short, I am simply interested to know whether
wxVariant was indeed *designed* to be a direct
replacement for COleVariant? Despite the different
approach to implementation? Has this ever been tested?

Thanks,
Dave






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