>Help! I'm having difficulty with the proper way to pass a variable to a VB dll subroutine that changes the variable: Here's my code:
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>Public RetVal
>RetVal = 0
>LOGS = createobject("LogServer.ActivityLogServer")
>LOGS.Log("Root",101,14,RetVal)
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>... The dll subroutine "Log" works perfectly receiving the first 3 parameters. The problem is that "RetVal" is not getting set by Log (RetVal always stays at 0). I've also tried:
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>LOGS.Log("Root",101,14,@RetVal)
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>In the VB declaration, "RevVal" is declared as Variant. A VB test application proves that RetVal, is getting set correctly.
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>What do I need to do so RetVal picks up the change made by the dll?

A "variant" is basically a "structure". You'll have to pass a string (probably 16+ bytes) by reference and parse the result. The "type" would be in the first byte (I think), and the "data" in the 5th+ bytes. If the variant is a "string", it would be a pointer to a string.