[Win32utils-devel] converting a RSTRING to an OLESTR

[Wayne Vucenic]

Great.  Glad it worked!

Working with OLE strings was a real pain until I found _bstr_t, which made
it pretty easy.

Take care,

Wayne

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Daniel Berger <djberg96 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wayne Vucenic wrote:
>
> > Hi Dan,
> >  I haven't had to do this in many years, but when I did the _bstr_t
> > routines were what I used:
> >  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa278285(VS.60).aspx
> >  An OLE string is really a BSTR isn't it?  Anyway, this is all from
> > memory, so I hope it's appropriate for what you're trying to do.
> >
>
> Thanks, that worked!
>
> For the record I had to add comutil.h to the included header files, and
> add both comsupp.lib and comsuppwd.lib to $LIBS in the extconf.rb file.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Dan
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