Installers freezing - ole, games

[Robert Shearman]

Marcus Meissner wrote:

>On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 02:17:06AM -0500, Robert Shearman wrote:
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>>In newer InstallShields, there is a marshaled object that contains a 
>>function with a VT_PTR -> VT_USERDEFINED( TKIND_ENUM ). This should be 
>>treated as "int *", but is actually treated as "int". This is due to 
>>some broken logic in the typelib marshaler that is designed to fix the 
>>problem with VT_PTR -> VT_USERDEFINED( TKIND_INTERFACE ) -> "IUnknown 
>>*", but where we should dereference the pointer any more.
>>We probably need to use the logic in ITypeInfo::Invoke to appropriately 
>>transform the soup of pointers and userdefined types into something we 
>>can use. I should also need to check what things are accepted in the 
>>native version. i.e. is VT_PTR -> VT_PTR -> VT_USERDEFINED( TKIND_ENUM ) 
>>supported? If so, that isn't representable by the VARIANT vt's, so we 
>>would need to treat it differently than the ITypeInfo::Invoke case.
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>Do you have a freely downloadable installer that exposes this?
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No, but I have a test program.

-- 
Rob Shearman

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