is the Type Browser finished enough for production?

Dean Thompson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.windows.devel.jawin
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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
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