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<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Howdy:</FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Upon further study I've learned that this problem only occurs when the structure parameter contains string or sequence members, even if they are bound.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Is there a workaround for this?</FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I am building a Forms project in Visual C++ V.7 in a .NET environment--is that not supported by omniorb?</FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#FF00FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I forgot to add that I could link if I changed the "out" parameters to "inout," and adjust the implementation class appropiately.</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Howdy:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I have the following methods defined in IDL:</FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">typedef</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">struct</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> EntityTypeAttributesData</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">{</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> string<100> TypeName ;</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">short</FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">TypeRange ;</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">short</FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">TypeCount ;</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">} EntityWeaponTypeAttributesDataType ;</FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">typedef</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">struct</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> EntityAttributesData</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> string<100> EntityName ;</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">long</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> EntityCount ;</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">} EntityAttributesDataType ;</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">boolean RequestEntityTypeAttributes( in </FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">short</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> ClassHandle, out EntityTypeAttributesDataType TypeAttributes ) ;</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">boolean RequestEntityAttributes( in </FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">long</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> EntityId, out EntityAttributesDataType EntityAttributes ) ;</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">In the Implementation class I have the following method declarations (also the bodies) :</FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">bool</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> RequestEntityTypeAttributes( </FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">short</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> ClassHandle, EntityTypeAttributesDataType_out TypeAttributes ) ; </FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">bool</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> RequestEntityAttributes( </FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">long</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> EntityId, EntityAttributesDataType_out EntityAttributes ) ;</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Yet when I attempt to build, I get the following link errors:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Courier New">LINK : error LNK2020: unresolved token (0A00002C) ObjectServerImpl.RequestEntityWeaponAttributes</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Courier New">LINK : error LNK2020: unresolved token (0A00002D) ObjectServerImpl.RequestEntityWeaponTypeAttributes</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Courier New">LINK : fatal error LNK1120: 2 unresolved externals</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">What am I missing?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Thanks,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Dave P</FONT>
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