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Re: Spirit.ocx in VC++
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lugnet.robotics
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Sun, 5 Mar 2000 14:49:03 GMT
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Hi Len,
On Sun, 5 Mar 2000 00:54:22 GMT you wrote:
> Looking at the docs it seems the UploadDatalog method returns
> a VB safe array as a variant if it succeeds.
Exactly.
> You should be able to find details of handling the type if you
> search for safe array or VT_ARRAY in the help...
Actually, I've been digging into the MSDN for quite a long time
without any significant result. :(
It seems that the UploadDatalog method does not work as described
in the Lego docs. Since spirit.ocx was thought for VB, I suspect
it is not portable one-to-one to VC++. Or at least this is what
it's happening to me... :]
> The variant is a kludge for loosely typed languages, it's basically
> just a union of all valid types with an additional field that
> determines the actual type.
Wouldn't it be better to agree upon the actual data type? ;)
Bye,
Antonio
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| Looking at the docs it seems the UploadDatalog method returns a VB safe array as a variant if it succeeds. You should be able to find details of handling the type if you search for safe array or VT_ARRAY in the help... The variant is a kludge for (...) (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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