Automation action and structures

The Automation active link action enables a Windows client to control Automation servers on the same computer, accessing the data and methods that those servers make available.

The ARAutomationStruct structure defines an Automation action.

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Developing-an-API-program

Data-structures

Structures-for-ARGetListEntryWithMultiSchemaFields

Structures used to define automation action 

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The ARAutomationStruct structure has the following elements:

Each method in an ARCOMMethodList structure uses the ARCOMMethodStruct structure:

Structures used to define the OLE automation method 


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The ARCOMMethodStruct structure has the following elements:

Each parameter in an ARCOMMethodParmList structure is specified in an ARCOMMethodParmStruct structure (see the following figure), which has the following elements:

The value returned by a method and the value passed in a parameter is each specified in the ARCOMValueStruct structure (see the following figure).

Structures used to define the OLE method and parameter values 


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The ARCOMValueStruct structure has the following elements:

Method return value types for ARCOMValueStruct

Parameter value types for ARCOMValueStruct

 

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