Hi all,
I don't know if this is the right group, but since I could not find
something specific for plugins and JAVA/JRI, I'll try my question here
first.
I have an ActiveX control that works just fine in IE. For flexibility
reasons, some of the methods in it's interface have VARIANT as in or out
params.
I want to have the SAME interfaces in Netscape (i.e the same HTML page
should work on both IE and Netscape identical for the HTML programmer). I
developped a Live-Connect plugin that calls the same native methods used in
ActiveX.
The problem is that I don't know how to translate from/to VARIANT types.
Somebody suggested that I should use Java Object type. Fine. I declared
Object params in my Java Plugin derived class where I was using VARIANTs.
But how do I translate from my VARIANT to the struct java_lang_Object* that
gets passed to me in my native method?
Please point me to a place where I can find more info about this.
Thanks,
Florin.
PS: Please don't suggest com.ms.com Variant since thhat will work with MS
JVM only. Also, I don't want to use XPCOM since it will not work on NS 3.x,
4.x
PPS: here is the specific place where I have troubles:
extern JRI_PUBLIC_API(struct java_lang_Object*)
native_GetProperty(JRIEnv* env, ...<more params>)
{
VARIANT value = {0};
// Call a library function to get the requested property into value
::MyGetProperty(&value);
// What now?!!! How do I convert from VARIANT to struct
java_lang_Object* ?
}
