VBS gets empty string

From: Eran (even_e_at_netvision.net.il)
Date: 07/28/04 

Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 16:10:22 +0300

Hi,

I need help for the following issue. I have a COM server in C++ and client
in VBS. in some reason, the VBS gets empty string from COM.

the implemintation is as follows:

[COM]
[id(4), helpstring("method RetString")] HRESULT ReturnString([out] BSTR
*RetString);

STDMETHODIMP CETS_Interface::ReturnString(BSTR *RetString)
{

 char MyString[10] = "temp";
 *RetString = A2BSTR(MyString);
 return (*RetString != NULL) ? S_OK : E_OUTOFMEMORY;
}

[VBS]

 ' ETS_Interface of "ETS.ETS_Interface.1"
' ETS_Interface Class
Set objETS_Interface = CreateObject("ETS.ETS_Interface")

Dim mystring

 objETS_Interface.RetString(mystring)
MsgBox(mystring) ' in some reason, I mystring is empty here.

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