Between our two email programs, it's getting ugly. I'm going to hack off a bunch of it.
At 05:31 PM 5/11/2006, Jon Stonecash wrote >I have been hacking away at this for a couple of days. I am definitely >getting punchy. Let me see if I can answer all of your questions: > >The COM interface is provided by AcuCobol. That is the interface that I >included in my email. That is a given. > >The relevant parts of the COBOL code look like this: Out of curiosity, do you know why there aren't line-breaks in what came through? I've put them in (but I don't know what the indentation should be) in the parts quoted back here. > PROCEDURE DIVISION USING VARIANT-COUNT, VARIANT-ARRAY. > MAIN-LINE-SECTION SECTION. > MAIN-LINE. > CALL "C$GETVARIANT" USING > VARIANT-COUNT > WS-COUNT. > IF WS-COUNT > 3 > MOVE 3 TO WS-COUNT > END-IF. > PERFORM VARYING WS-INDEX FROM 1 BY 1 > UNTIL WS-INDEX > WS-COUNT > CALL "C$GETVARIANT" USING > VARIANT-ARRAY(WS-INDEX) > WS-STRING-PARM(WS-INDEX) > END-CALL > END-PERFORM. When the AcuCobol COM method Call calls a program, it apparently passes the number of actual parameters that were passed followed by the parameters that were passed as an array. (That's a guess based on the code you have that presumably is similar to some sample code that shows how to address the data that came across.) Have you checked what WS-COUNT is in the Cobol program? I think it's probably 1 -- remember, you passed only ONE parameter (that's an array of 3 elements). Your code would (I think) be working if you had passed the 3 strings in 3 separate parameters -- not that it's what you want., I think you need to find out how to address the individual items of an array that's passed into the Cobol code -- in .Net terms, how to "unbox" the array from the VARIANT parameter that was passed. Is there docn of C$GETVARIANT that mentions what to do if the variant is an array? I think the AcuCobol people could help with that. Sorry not to be able to help more. Good luck! [email-munged message remnants snipped] J. Merrill / Analytical Software Corp =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentor® http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com
