activex set properties problem

[John Aherne]

I see that Colin Ingarfield had a problem with the activex component 
back in May. To do with  array of ints type properties not being dealt with.

It looks like someone else found a solution to do with this and I have 
copied the text of the email that discusses this below.

Of course I am interested since I have just run into this problem. 
However, I am absolutely clueless as to what to do. Perhaps someone who 
knows more might be able to contact the person who has the workaround so 
it could be patched into wx.activex. Or maybe sent to Lindsay Mathieson 
who might be interested to include it in his module.

Hoping this might get picked up.

Regards

John Aherne


> at this moment I am struggling with the wxactivex component. The class
> seems to work pretty nicely, however I have to work with a method of
> the activex control that returns a wxVariant. By looking more
> carefully, the Variant  that is returned should contain an array of
> values (char's). This is by default not handled by wxactivex (is a
> to-do item).
> In an attempt to add this capability I cam across the problem that a
> VARIANT has to be converted to a wxVariant.
>
> I was able to determine the number of values in the VARIANT and as far
> as I can judge at this moment I also succeeded in getting access to the
> individual elements of it. Whenever I tried to add those elements to
> the wxVariant in the "bool MSWVariantToVariant(VARIANTARG& va,
> wxVariant& vx)" function, everything crashes, even without giving any
> error messages.
>
> Does someone know how to do such a conversion? This is really driving
> me crazy!
>
> Regards,
>
> Sjaak
>
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> From:        SVerdoold - view profile
> Date:        Tues, Jul 11 2006 2:09 pm
> Email:         "SVerdoold" <SVerdo... at gmail.com>
> Groups:         comp.soft-sys.wxwindows
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> I figured out what was the problem:
> the control gave back an array of int's and it seems that an array is
> not yet supported by wxactivex covnersion routines.. By using standards
> windows VARIANTS on the specific routine I managed to bypass  this
> conversion. Everything works ok in that case.
>
> SVerdoold schreef: