is the Type Browser finished enough for production?
Dean Thompson <[email protected]>
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I am considering making serious use of Jawin in our product, and I am trying to understand the status of the Type Browser. I have the impression that the Type Browser is a fantastic idea that received a great deal of hard work, but that was never taken to a fully usable state. Can someone confirm whether this is the case? (If so, that's perfectly fine -- I still love Type Browser. Maybe my company can contribute improvements.) Here are the reasons I think Type Browser may be unfinished. Perhaps I just haven't learned how to "think in Jawin" -- if someone can enlighten me, that would be super. - I have not been able to find any documentation or examples showing how to invoke the stubs generated by the Type Browser. - Many of the generated stubs take Variant parameters, but I have not been able to find a way to construct a Variant short of piecing it together by hand (setting the vt field and the appropriate value field). - When a COM method requires ByRef, the generated stub takes a Variant parameter, but there does not seem to be any way to create a Variant that serializes with the VT_BYREF bit set. - The lack of support for CoClass blows a hole in my very first efforts to use the Type Browser for Excel, because both Workbook and Worksheet are CoClass. I will be very grateful for any help. Dean