Hello again,

i'm fine, thanks for asking.

One thing you could try out immediately is calling the method directly over the provided interface

something like this:

yourActiveX = CREATEOBJECT("someGuywhohasn'tautomationinhismindwhenhewrotethisobject:).CBlumbing")

iInterface = GETINTERFACE(yourActiveX,'ITheInterface')

&& trying the combinations of the last messages
&& ShorttoNUm and so on
iInterface.Method(@X)


maybe the Fox uses the IDispatch Automation interface when calling the method, if so that would result in another conversion from the type you passed into - into Variants before the method get called through the Invoke Method of IDispatch .. and of course this would destroy all our efforts of passing the correct type 

the point is when you use GETINTERFACE you ensure that you directly call the method, which seams to be neccessary in this situation ... 

Hope this helps, otherwise if you could e-mail me the type library i could do some further testing/exploration (haven't found much on VT_PTR even at Google)

Regards

Christian