Re: COM - accessing pointer variables

Well if I have a func like this ( im trying to get it to work with the simplist case now ) HRESULT test( [ out, ref ] unsigned char *n ); I can call that from PERL like use Win32::OLE; use Win32::OLE::Variant; $obj = Win32::OLE->new( "comobjectname" ); $n = Variant( VT_UI1 | VT_BYREF, 0 ); $obj->test( $n ); Unfortunatly I prefer PHP's sytax to perl's ( a LOT ) so I tried duplicating that in PHP, and got $obj = new COM( "comobjectname" ); $n = new VARIANT( 0, VT_UI1 | VT_BYREF ); $obj->test( $n ); I get a | Warning: Invoke() failed: Type mismatch in <filename> on line <line> I cant see what I'm doing wrong as it works in PERL and they both use the same IDispath style of interface ? Two, other points.... 1. How do I release my COM object ?, I thought I'd have to use the IUnknown interface's Release() func to decrease the ref-count. But can I call that from a IDispatch interface ? If not how DO I release my object 2. Can I pass strings - I read in the php.dev archive an article saying that array passing to COM wasnt implemented yet. Is it ? Please help if you can Park "Alain Samoun" <alain@sonic.net> wrote in message news:20010919121237.A9434@sonic.net... > I'm not sure, but try: > $str = new VARIANT($obj->Get_Version_Str() , VT_STR | VT_BYREF ); > or simply: > $str = $obj->Get_Version_Str(); > Also, are you sure that release() is part of your object definition? > > > $obj->Release(); > Alain