Re: VBScript OCX receive and supply a safeArray of type VT_UI1- problem

JJ,

> It's mainly because for array, VBScript only have native support
> for array of variant.

I know.

What I /exepected/ was that it would just store the returned SafeArray into 
a variant.  It would not be able to do anything with it, but that is where 
Method #2 would come in.

Maybe I asked the wrong question, and it should have been

"How do I get VBScript to store non-native data, like a SafeArray of VT_UI1, 
into a Variant".

> To workaround the problem, store the array of non-variant result
> from `Method1()` into VBScript generated array first,

:-) That is what tried to evade.   The returned data from method #1 could be 
quite large, and having its size multiplied by 16 just because single bytes 
need to be stored in Variants is quite wastefull.

> Only if the method argument type was specifically declared as
> a reference (i.e. only accept a reference),VBScript will pass
> a value as a reference.

While writing this reply I realized that providing a Variant as an [in,out] 
type would probably allow me to put a SafeArray into it, and as such 
bypassingt the auto-conversion.  I'll have to try and see.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser