Re: idl and SAFEARRAY

From:
"Alexander Nickolov" <agnickolov@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.atl
Date:
Tue, 5 Sep 2006 14:45:19 -0700
Message-ID:
<etOPWST0GHA.3656@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>
Not sure about VBA, but in VB you need to declare it as
a redim-mable array and ReDim it first:

dim y() as Double
redim y(2)

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"HasEx" <HasEx@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
news:eOYKWpQ0GHA.1536@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

Please tell me what is going on with the following, a possible MS bug?
Many thanks.
Has

I have the following interface impld as ATL simple object (dll)
No code of mine is added!!!
interface Itestobject : IDispatch{[propput,helpstring("property
myarray")]HRESULTmyarray([in] SAFEARRAY(double)* myarray);};

the following code will crash from VBA

Dim a As New idlcrashLib.testobject
Sub test(z() As Double)
a.myarray = z
End Sub
Sub star_testing()
Dim y(2) As Double
test y
End Sub

If I use a method instead of "put property", so VBA can be written as
(no "=" anymore)

this works fine.

Dim a As New idlcrashLib.testobject
Sub test(z() As Double)
a.myarray z
End Sub
Sub star_testing()
Dim y(2) As Double
test y
End Sub

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