Support Statement: How to selectively suppress OptionalArguments=on for a specific method

Support Statement: How to selectively suppress OptionalArguments=on for a specific method

Question
How to selectively suppress OptionalArguments=on for a specific method?

The code has an optional implicity-byref parameter and I want to suppress the OptionalArguments migration for this method. The methods is called in the VBP where it is declared and from other VBPs in the system.

Public Function SearchForWindow(PartTitle$, Optional SwitchTo, Optional WholeTitleFoundOUT) As Long <-- WholeTitleFoundOUT must remain ByRef Some calls passed all parameters: hWndLoc& = SearchForWindow(OrigCaption, False, NameString) Some calls omit the optional parameters: hWnd = SearchForWindow(ReaderServerWindowName(iServerNo)) hWnd = SearchForWindow(ReaderServerWindowName(iReaderServerNoIN)) hWnd = SearchForWindow(ReaderServerWindowNameFromReader(iReaderIndexIN)) hWnd = SearchForWindow(SReaderServerWindowNamePrefix())

 

Answer

You can add migStatus=DoNotOverload to a method in a custom IDF or with a Refactor/Migrate command.

 

<accessor id="Cell" type="Variant" migStatus="DoNotOverload" nPram="6" migpattern="%1d.get_Cell(%2d,%3d,%4d,1,1)">

 

You may use compile/refactor/fixtype:

<refactor> <FixType identifier="APPCommon.SearchForWindow.WholeTitleFoundOUT" status="ByRef" type="String" /> </refactor> NOTE: type="String" is added because FixType will suppress the automatic type inference to string so you need to do it here. While you are at it, you may want to add a fixtype for SwitchTo: <FixType identifier="APPCommon.SearchForWindow.SwitchTo" type="Boolean" />

 

Bonus

Question: How to report cases where an implicit byref explicit optional was migrated to byval optional?

Answer: Search the definition report for byval.*optional.*changed