>>>>>I have a COM server that has a method that returns a pointer to float in a Variant.
>>>>>
>>>>>The pointer to float is actually an array of 32-bit floats.
>>>>>
>>>>>Is there some way that I can get access to that array in VFP?
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks,
>>>>>Jim
>>>>
>>>>You may need to use COMARRAY() to specify if it is zero based etc.
>>>>
>>>>ie:
>>>>

>>>>local array aMyArray[1] 
>>>>COMARRAY(oMyCOM,11)
>>>>oMyCOM.MyMethod(@aMyArray)
>>>>

Cetin
>>>
>>>Cetin,
>>>
>>>thanks for your quick reply.
>>>
>>>The COM object method returns the pointer like so:
>>>
>>>pArray = oMyCom.GetDataArray()
>>>
>>>How can COMARRAY help me with this?
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Jim
>>
>>A follow-up.
>>
>>If I connect to the COM server using a C++ client, pArray is the address of the array in the COM server. I can view and manipulate all of the elements in the array.
>>
>>I would like to be able to do the same thing with a VFP COM client.
>>
>>How can I do this?
>>
>>There is a lot of VFP documentation about how to write a COM server, but very little about COM clients and passing data between the client and server.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Jim
>
>Some additional thoughts:
>
>1. oMyCOM.GetDataArray() actually returns a variant. The address of the array is contained in the pfltVal member. So, in my C++ client, I can get access to the array with:
>
>pData = (oMyCOM.GetDataArray()).pfltVal
>
>2. The VFP documentation explains about the need to use the Comarray() function when passing an array TO a COM object. But, says nothing about how to receive an array from a COM object.
>
>If I try in VFP:
>
>LOCAL vaData AS Variant
>vaData = oMyCOM.GetDataArray()
>pData = vaData.pfltVal
>
>The debugger shows vaData = .NULL. and the Type is "N"
>
>and I get an error message saying "VADATA is not an object."
>
>Thanks for your help.
>Jim

Well, I have figured out the answer to my problem. If I create my array as a SAFEARRAY in my COM server, and pass that in the variant returned by GetDataArray(), VFP correctly receives the array.

Jim