Ole16 to Ole32 mapping

[Marcus Meissner]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 10:00:48AM -0300, Bruno Jesus wrote:
> Hi, I would like some advice about Ole function redirection. The
> winsock16 dll maps some operations to ws2_32 dll, I thought I could do
> the same with Ole16disp to Oleaut32. For example the function
> SAFEARRAYALLOCDESCRIPTOR in Ole16disp have a similar counterpart named
> SafeArrayAllocDescriptor in Oleaut32. There are dozens of functions
> like this if you look in the spec files of these dlls. I added
> oleaut32 to the imports and started mapping by making one line
> functions, for example SAFEARRAYALLOCDESCRIPTOR simply return calling
> SafeArrayAllocDescriptor from Ole32. Is it ok to do it like this?
> 
> I implemented SafeArrayAlloc[Descriptor/Data] and
> SafeArrayDestroy[Descriptor/Data] and they seem to be working, then I
> started implementing some of the others and testing with the
> application winverbs from bug #28113. Is there any msdn documentation
> like to these old functions? I would like to compare the function
> parameters in some cases.

You will quite soon stumble upon the need for implementing COM interfaces in 16bit.

Let me just say that this will not be pretty.

Ciao, Marcus