how to make Array variable type as vbscript Array in order to transfer to a Adobe Illustrator Application?

I want to draw a triangle in adobe illustrator via COM server:

aAI = actxserver('Illustrator.application');
aAI.Documents.Add;
aGrp = aAI.ActiveDocument.GroupItems.Add;
aPath = aGrp.PathItems.Add;
% error appeared here when transfer the coordinate of vertices of a triangle by many ways: 
aPath.SetEntirePath([100,100,100,304,23,334])
aPath.SetEntirePath({100,100;100,304;23,334;})
aPath.SetEntirePath({100,100,100,304,23,334;})
aPath.SetEntirePath({100;100;100;304;23;334;})
aPath.SetEntirePath({[100,100;100,304;23,334;]})
aPath.SetEntirePath([100,100;100,304;23,334;])
aPath.SetEntirePath([100,100;100,304;23,334;]')

Error using Interface.Adobe_Illustrator_CC_Type_Library.PathItem/SetEntirePath
Invoke Error, Dispatch Exception:
Source: Adobe Illustrator
Description: Illegal argument - argument 1
- Only arrays with dimension 1 are supported

The working vbs code is :

aPath.SetEntirePath Array(  Array(100,100),  Array(123,1224),  Array(456,66) )

A similar issue has been solved in python, but not matlab.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10166064/python-win32com-and-2-dimensional-arrays

I think the problem may be COM Types .

But I cannot find a way to solve it.

Unsupported Types ---MATLAB does not support the following COM types.

---Structure

---Sparse array

---_ Multidimensional SAFEARRAYs (greater than two dimensions)_ ( But this array is a 2-dimension array, not more than two. )

---Write-only properties

See Also

https://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/92424-how-can-i-pass-arguments-to-an-activex-server-from-matlab-7-0-r14-as-one-dimensional-arrays

https://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/94888-how-can-i-pass-arguments-by-reference-to-an-activex-server-from-matlab-7-0-r14

https://uk.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_external/handling-com-data-in-matlab-software.html#bq553lb

Answer 1

[Guillaume]

It looks like SetEntirePath expects a 1D array of 1D arrays. In theory that would be a cell array of vectors in matlab, so:

aPath.SetEntirePath({[100, 100], [100, 304], [23, 334]})

Is that function documented somewhere (accesible publicly) to know for sure what it expects?

edit: As per your first answer link, you may need to first issue:

feature('COM_SafeArraySingleDim', 1);

to force matlab to pass the arrays as 1D.

[raym]

The input argument is array of [x,y] coordinate pairs as from adobe scripting guide. I tried the code you suggested, but the error is the same:

Invoke Error, Dispatch Exception:
Source: Adobe Illustrator
Description: Illegal argument - argument 1
- Only arrays with dimension 1 are supported

[Guillaume]

Even after you've issued

feature('COM_SafeArraySingleDim', 1)

?

I'm asking for the documentation because array of [x,y] coordinate pairs is not a COM type. It's. Hopefully, the documentation would state exactly what COM type it expects (SAFEARRAY of SAFEARRAY of VARIANT ?)