Anyone actively working on ITypeInfo_fnInvoke and VariantChangeType?

[Alex Villací­s Lasso]

Bill Medland wrote:
> before I start trying to get up to speed on it.
>
> Congratulations.  My company's program now gets somewhere with 
> the builtin ole dlls (thanks to fixes in the out-of-process COM) 
> so I am interested in trying to get it to work completely with 
> them (especially since the native ones no longer work)
>
> What I have just fallen over is some VB that calls a method that 
> results in 
> ITypeInfo_fnInvoke failed to convert param 0 to VT_VARIANT|
> VT_BYREF from VT_I2.
>
> So I changed the VB and ended up with 
> ITypeInfo_fnInvoke failed to convert param 0 to VT_VARIANT|
> VT_BYREF from VT_VARIANT|VT_BYREF.
>
> Now it seems to me that it ought at least to handle the second 
> case, but that probably demonstrates that I don't know what I am 
> talking about.
>
> Anyway; if someone is already working on that sort of thing then 
> there is probably little point in me trying to learn it all.  
> However if no-one is then I guess I will start trying to learn 
> it.
>
> Comments?
>   

You might be interested in this bug report:

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4370

Alex Villacís Lasso