Arrays - non variant - in VBScript

Apologies if this is already covered somewhere in the forum but I haven't been able to find it if it is....

I have an active X control that is dealing with merging data with a word document. The control is called TX Textcontrol.

I have a really annoying problem in that I need to find the current position of the caret which is helpfully given by the control in "CurrentInputPosition", but (and it's a big but) this is returned as an array of longs. Although my code can see that it has a vartype of 8195, it can see it's an array and its upper and lower bounds.... but i can't do anything with the actual values. I realise it's because vbscript only works with variant datatypes... but I'm at a loss as to how to get at the numbers inside this array.

Could anyone help or give me pointers? I'm afraid this is beyond my classic asp abilities (i'm used to .NET), I need someone's help!!

Many thanks in advance....

J

Could you post some actual code of how you are trying to access the data and explain how it fails? Is there an error?

dim cur
   cur = objTX.CurrentInputPosition
   
   dim intvartype, intlbound, intubound, intCurrentPage     
  
intvartype  = vartype(cur)
   intlbound    = lbound(cur)
   intubound    = ubound(cur)

This returns 8195, 0 and 2 respectively
  
   intCurrentPage = cur(0)
This fails with a "Type mismatch" error

The object objTX is the TextControl object which deals with creating a word document, merging data etc. All that is working OK I just can't get at the values inside the (long) array that is returned from "objTX.CurrentInputPosition". I'm afraid I'm stuck with VBScript as this is a legacy system that I've been asked to change something on.....

Is there a way I can put some kind of add in (dll????) that will take a long array and convert it into a variant type array??..... I'm at a loss how to go about that though..

What do you get for:
 
VarType(cur(0))

Type mismatch 'cur'

Hmmmm.....annoying. Unfortunately I think you may be stuck with writing your own .Net component that will sit between the TextControl and your VBScript code to make it play nice with VBS.

hmmm.. yes.. after a day or so of beating my head against the computer I think i agree with you - vbscript just can't cope with that array that's been returned. I'll look into maybe doing a small .NET module that can be used.


:(