ITypeLib::GetTypeComp (Compact 2013)

3/26/2014

This method retrieves a pointer to the ITypeComp for a type library. This enables a client compiler to bind to the library's types, variables, constants, and global functions.

Syntax

HRESULT GetLibAttr( 
  ITypeComp FAR* FAR* ppTComp 
); 

Parameters

• ppTComp
  [out] Pointer to a pointer to the ITypeComp instance for this ITypeLib. A client compiler uses the methods in the ITypeComp interface to bind to types in ITypeLib, as well as to the global functions, variables, and constants defined in ITypeLib.

Return Value

The following table shows the return values for this function.

Value	Description
S_OK	Success.
E_OUTOFMEMORY	Out of memory.
E_INVALIDARG	One or more of the parameters is invalid.
TYPE_E_IOERROR	The function could not read from the file.
TYPE_E_INVDATAREAD	Invalid data.
TYPE_E_UNSUPFORMAT	The type library has an older format.
TYPE_E_INVALIDSTATE	The type library could not be opened.
TYPE_E_WRONGTYPEKIND	Type mismatch.

Remarks

The ITypeComp::Bind function of the returned TypeComp binds to global functions, variables, constants, enumerated values, and coclass members.

The Bind function also binds the names of the TYPEKIND enumerations of TKIND_MODULE, TKIND_ENUM, and TKIND_COCLASS. These names shadow any global names defined within the type information.

The members of TKIND_ENUM, TKIND_MODULE, and TKIND_COCLASS types marked as Application objects can be directly bound to from ITypeComp without specifying the name of the module.

Bind and ITypeComp::BindType accept only unqualified names. GetTypeComp returns a pointer to the ITypeComp interface, which is then used to bind to global elements in the library. The names of some types (TKIND_ENUM, TKIND_MODULE, and TKIND_COCLASS) share the name space with variables, functions, constants, and enumerators.

If a member requires qualification to differentiate it from other items in the name space, GetTypeComp can be called successively for each qualifier to bind to the member. This allows programming language compilers to access members of modules, enumerations, and coclasses, even though the member cannot be bound to with a qualified name.

Requirements

Header	oaidl.h, oaidl.idl
Library	oleaut32.lib, uuid.lib

See Also

Reference

ITypeLib
ITypeComp
ITypeComp::Bind
ITypeComp::BindType
TYPEKIND