hello,

I would like to return a pointer to a class to my asp program 

but I am keep getting he number - 0 when I try to do that

I do success to return regular types as char*,int 

thanks

VBScript can only handle variants... I have very little experience in this,

but from what I've picked up you'd do something like this:



// Create the variable

VARIANT ptrToYourClass;

VariantInit(*ptrToYourClass);



// Assign what type of variant it is...I'm guessing here,

// but I think it'd be a pointer to the IDispatch interface

// of the class

ptrToYourClass.vt = VT_DISPATCH;



// Assign the actual pointer

ptrToYourClass.lVal = &yourClass;



return ptrToYourClass;



Some potential problems is that I don't know of your class will still be

around after it returns to ASP.  I would assume if you don't do Set myObj 

Nothing, it'd still be around, and that if you do destory the object, the

class would be destroyed along with it, however I'm guessing here and you'd

have to try it to make sure.



The other is that (again, I just started doing components in ASP so I'm not

sure about this) I think ASP/VBScript can only work with the IDispatch

interface of an object/class.  So you might have to implement that interface

on the class your trying to return.



I'm sorry I can't provide more concrete answers, but that's what I'd try

doing if I were in your situation.



Hope that helps,

Stephen





> -----Original Message-----

> From: yaniv [mailto:YanivN@w...]

> Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 7:51 AM

> To: ASP components

> Subject: [asp_components] Return Handle from a Com(ATL) component

>

>

> hello,

> I would like to return a pointer to a class to my asp program

> but I am keep getting he number - 0 when I try to do that

> I do success to return regular types as char*,int

> thanks

>