getvariable/setvariable broken in every version.

[sandwiches]

Hi there,

Since the activeX (stable)'s getvariable and setvariable functions don't actually work, or nobody could actually provide an answer to my previous statements, i decided to try a nightly build to see if maybe any issues were fixed. It seems now that calling getvariable or setvariable causes VLC to return HRESULT E_FAIL. (aka something bad & unspecified happened).

When is getvariable/setvariable actually going to work/fixed/less broken? I've now never seen it work over several versions...

Anyways, i'm now going to test EVERY previous version of VLC and report the different way it breaks each time, until i find a version that works.

0.9.3-git-20080923 - getvariable responds with E_FAIL (unknown bad error, hard to track down)
0.9.2 - getvariable responds with E_FAIL (bad)
0.8.6i - getvariable works but reports "Value does not fall within the expected range." for "next-chapter" and "prev-chapter" despite these being defined in /src/input/var.c. However this works with "play".
0.8.6h - getvariable works but reports "Value does not fall within the expected range." for "next-chapter", "prev-chapter" AND "play".
0.8.6a - getvariable works but reports "Value does not fall within the expected range." for "next-chapter", "prev-chapter" AND "play".
0.8.5 - getvariable works but reports "Value does not fall within the expected range." for "next-chapter", "prev-chapter" AND "play".

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

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