Alex,

The article clearly states that "This behavior is by design". The best you can do is to post it to VFP wishlist.

>A problem exists when passing a variable by reference to an ActiveX if it built with MFC and expects a variant. This is a known issue, but it still needs some sort of VFP-side resolution or workaround because a VFP user normally cannot change the ActiveX control.
>
>See reference:
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q177575
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>I take this opportunity to thank to the VFP team for their good work. Alex