Re: COM problem: help

hi crawley, please submit a bug report next time, i check them more recently than the mailinglist. 'it doesn't work' is also a poor description of the problem. looking to your interface definition i think the problem is, that you have to specify these values as VARIANT* because you can't pass them by reference otherwise. there is already a bugreport refering to this (i can't remember the id), search for it if you need more infos .. -harald. "Crawley" <crawley.storm@ntlworld.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:<20010919205759.10730.qmail@pb1.pair.com>... > I have an interface like this: > > interface ITest > { > HRESULT foo( [ out ] int *n ); > HRESULT bar( [ out, string ] char *str ); > }; > > I can call the first one from PH, but ONLY if I make the variable 'n' > of type [ out, retval ]. My understanding is that I should be able to > call it like this. > > $obj = new COM( "mycomobject.test" ); > $n = new VARIANT( 0, VT_UI1 | VT_BYREF ); > > $obj->foo( $n ); > > but when I try this, it dosent work > > What am I missing ? > > asuming I'm missing something, can I do the same thing with a string. > What I want to do is pass strings back from my COM object. I read > that there is no support for VARIANT arrays, but I see you support > VT_BSTR. So can I have strings as out params. > > If not I'm going to have to move to another scripting language ( for > this project ). Aside from that - > > PHP is great, its like scripting C++ ... so the best of both worlds. > > Rich > >