Cannot handle VT_I2 (int16) variants..

[TheInsomniac]

I have a program that returns many values as type VT_I2. Is there a way to get node-win32ole to handle these? I notice that it handles 32 and 64 bit ints and can't think of any reason why it WON'T work but.. I've never worked with C++ before.

Thanks!

[Antony74]

Are you able to provide example-code to illustrate this problem, please?

[TheInsomniac]

I'm connecting to my Homeseer home automation software (I was previously using Python to do this but wanted to attempt it in Node.js). The setup:

var win32ole = require('win32ole');
var hs = win32ole.client.Dispatch('Homeseer.Application');

Works as it does not return a response value but Homeseer does register the command:

hs.WriteLog("Testing", "Testing 123");

Doesn't work because the returned value is a VT_I2:

hs.DeviceStatus("Q31");
> [unknown type: 2:VT_I2 (not implemented now)]
hs.execX10("Q31");
> [unknown type: 2:VT_I2 (not implemented now)]

Thanks for the quick reply!

[Antony74]

I believe I've sorted this out. Would you like to try my development version to check?

npm install win32ole-dev

[TheInsomniac]

Works fantastically. Thank you for performing this enhancement for me.

[pvilas]

Hi Antony
Did you updated this? I have the same problem with VT_I2 and now it works with de dev branch.
Regards.

[Antony74]

I'm afraid this is not my project to update. There hasn't been a release of node-win32ole for a long time now. I'm writing a more ad hoc node extension of my own these days so I can efficiently make the batches of COM calls I require directly from C++ without everything being marshaled to JavaScript in between. :-(