PropVariantToUInt16Vector function (propvarutil.h)

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10/13/2021

Extracts data from a PROPVARIANT structure into an unsigned short vector.

Syntax

PSSTDAPI PropVariantToUInt16Vector(
  [in]  REFPROPVARIANT propvar,
  [out] USHORT         *prgn,
  [in]  ULONG          crgn,
  [out] ULONG          *pcElem
);

Parameters

[in] propvar

Type: REFPROPVARIANT

Reference to a source PROPVARIANT structure.

[out] prgn

Type: USHORT*

Points to a buffer containing crgn unsigned short values. When this function returns, the buffer has been initialized with pcElem unsigned short elements extracted from the source PROPVARIANT.

[in] crgn

Type: ULONG

Size of the buffer pointed to by prgn in elements.

[out] pcElem

Type: ULONG*

When this function returns, contains the count of unsigned short values extracted from the source PROPVARIANT structure.

Return value

Type: HRESULT

This function can return one of these values.

Return code	Description
S_OK	Returns S_OK if successful, or an error value otherwise.
TYPE_E_BUFFERTOOSMALL	The source PROPVARIANT contained more than crgn values. The buffer pointed to by prgn.
E_INVALIDARG	The PROPVARIANT was not of the appropriate type.

Remarks

This helper function is used in places where the calling application expects a PROPVARIANT to hold a vector of unsigned short values with a fixed number of elements.

If the source PROPVARIANT has type VT_VECTOR | VT_UI2 or VT_ARRAY | VT_UI2, this helper function extracts up to crgn unsigned short values and places them into the buffer pointed to by prgn. If the PROPVARIANT contains more elements than will fit into the prgn buffer, this function returns an error and sets pcElem to 0.

Examples

The following example, to be included as part of a larger program, demonstrates how to use PropVariantToUInt16Vector to access an unsigned short vector value in a PROPVARIANT.

// PROPVARIANT propvar;
// Assume the variable propvar is initialized and valid
USHORT rgShorts[4]; // The application is expecting propvar to hold 4 USHORTs in a vector
ULONG cElems;
HRESULT hr = PropVariantToUInt16Vector(propvar, rgShorts, ARRAYSIZE(rgShorts), &cElems);
if (SUCCEEDED(hr))
{
     if (cElems == ARRAYSIZE(rgShorts))
     {
         // The application got 4 USHORTs which are now stored in rgShorts
     }
     else
     {
         // The application got cElems which are stored in the first cElems elements of rgShorts
     }
}

Requirements

Requirement	Value
Minimum supported client	Windows XP with SP2, Windows Vista [desktop apps only]
Minimum supported server	Windows Server 2003 with SP1 [desktop apps only]
Target Platform	Windows
Header	propvarutil.h
Library	Propsys.lib
DLL	Propsys.dll (version 6.0 or later)
Redistributable	Windows Desktop Search (WDS) 3.0