Another GroupWise question. I'm looking for information on...
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01 Sep 2003
Q.
Another GroupWise question. I'm looking for information on the format of VARIANT parameters:
Item (BSTR name, VARIANT postoffice, VARIANT domain)
in the user interface. I presume they are VT_BSTR. The problem is that every time I call an interface function that takes a VARIANT, I get an exception 0x80020009. I can use the Find function just fine, as it only takes a BSTR! I'm performing the following:
VARIANT postOffice;
VariantInit (&postOffice);
V_VT (&postOffice) = VT_BSTR;
V_BSTR (&postOffice) = SysAllocString
(TO_OLE_STRING ("TEST_PO"));
The domain is done similarly by calling:
pUsers->Item ((BSTR)"test_user", postOffice, domain, &pDIADUser);
A.
Another C++ user! (And I thought I was the only one.) I have used Item() successfully with C++. The PO and Domain VARIANT parameters are of BSTR type. I believe the problem you are seeing is due to the first parameter. The Item method expects the first parameter to be a wide character (Unicode) string. So, calling the cast to a BSTR for the ->Item() call won't work. You must also convert the string for the first parameter to Unicode (TO_OLE_STRING).
* Originally published in Novell AppNotes
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