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

JJ,

> VBA doesn't have any problem with your case of code (tested in
> Excel VBA with ADODB.Stream's array of byte - same problematic
> variant type).

Thanks for checking.

And yes, that (VT_UI1 / Byte() ) is the type of the SafeArray I'm returning.

As mentioned, it has got /some/ support, but VBScript mostly regards it as a 
string.  Which, in my case, it definitily isn't.


And thanks for reminding me of ADODB.  I had downloaded two example scripts, 
but hadn't yet taken a look at them.   Doing a quick(ish) test and looking 
at the "vartype()" result of what "stream.read" returns it does match what 
my method #1 returns: &H2011.  IOW, nothing outof the ordinary (of sorts) 
for VBScript.

After that I checked the TypeLib to that ADOB.stream object and saw that 
neither the "stream.read" nor the "stream.write" methods used a SafeArray as 
its out- or input (none of the methods do), but just used Variants to wrap 
and transport them in.

IOW, althoug I called it "an ugly work-around", it seems to be the way its 
supposed to be done.  Oh well.

Also, the ADODB example mentioned build-in(!) functions like 
lenb(),midb(),ascb() and chrb(), which I was not aware of.  Meaning I do not 
have to write them myself (my "method #2" was an early attempt to them). 
Phew. :-)

And a funny thing : although you can do an "ubound()" on the result of a 
"stream.read", you can't actually access that result as if its an array ...

Regards,
Rudy Wieser