From 795b0f144495454aac0dc23e865f7a8f87f6dfa3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vadim Zeitlin <vadim@wxwidgets.org>
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 15:16:33 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] handle NULL BSTRs as empty ones per Microsoft convention

git-svn-id: https://svn.wxwidgets.org/svn/wx/wxWidgets/trunk@50027 c3d73ce0-8a6f-49c7-b76d-6d57e0e08775
---
 src/msw/ole/oleutils.cpp | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/msw/ole/oleutils.cpp b/src/msw/ole/oleutils.cpp
index 1c37542f38..8fbcf99885 100644
--- a/src/msw/ole/oleutils.cpp
+++ b/src/msw/ole/oleutils.cpp
@@ -75,6 +75,11 @@ WXDLLEXPORT BSTR wxConvertStringToOle(const wxString& str)
 
 WXDLLEXPORT wxString wxConvertStringFromOle(BSTR bStr)
 {
+    // NULL BSTR is equivalent to an empty string (this is the convention used
+    // by VB and hence we must follow it)
+    if ( !bStr )
+        return wxString();
+
 #if wxUSE_UNICODE
     wxString str(bStr);
 #else