COM Browser Circular Reference

[Larry Heber]

Hopefully someone can help as this is driving me crazy. When I use the COM Browser (PB9) to create an include for my application it is creating a circular reference that I can't seem to resolve. I understand that the TYPES and UNIONS are not always in the correct order. As I am trying to resolve all the conflicts there is one that I can't seem to overcome.

I am exporting the "Active DS Type Library 1.0" (activeds.tlb).

Here is the union reference which is declared first:

UNION uTag___MIDL_IOleAutomationTypes_0005
    lptdesc AS tagTYPEDESC
    lpadesc AS tagARRAYDESC
    hreftype AS DWORD
END UNION

Further down the types are declare after the union. Though the tagTYPEDESC references the union. So moving them ahead in the order just causes the tagTYPEDESC to fail.

TYPE tagTYPEDESC
    PB___MIDL_0008 AS uTag___MIDL_IOleAutomationTypes_0005
    vt AS WORD
END TYPE

TYPE tagARRAYDESC
    tdescElem AS tagTYPEDESC
    cDims AS WORD
    rgbounds AS tagSAFEARRAYBOUND PTR
END TYPE

Thank you for any help that can be offered!


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[Michael Mattias]

For a fix you can create copies of the types with different names and paste 'em in a place where the compiler likes 'em.