Re: use struct in vbscript?

From:
"Alexander Nickolov" <agnickolov@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.atl
Date:
Wed, 25 Oct 2006 09:28:06 -0700
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Well, int is actually an Automation type (VT_INT). However,
most Automation environments, VB6 included, do not understand
and support it. But the Automation marshaler does, so the struct
is technically Automation-compatible. Just not interoperable.

To the OP: This of course does _not_ imply that VBScript can
handle structs. It just can't.

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"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org> wrote in message
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"Claus77" <cmassion@web.de> wrote in message
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i'm just programing a com-interface and within my .idl file i define
a struct

how can i use this in my vb-script?


You can't. VBScript does not support structs.

by the way, there always comes the warning from my midl-compiler:
could not set uuid:strukk


Your struct is not automation-compatible. Use short or long in place of
int.
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