Hello,
I wanted to import the UIAutomationClient type library. Thus I compiled the UIAutomationClient.idl to .tlb and then used importtl to convert it to pascal.
Importtl converted this incorrectly, it ignored [out, retval] parameters on many places. For example, two examples from IUIAutomationElement interface.
IDL:
HRESULT GetRuntimeId (

             [out, retval] SAFEARRAY(int) * runtimeId );

         HRESULT FindFirst (
             [in] enum TreeScope scope,
             [in] IUIAutomationCondition * condition,
             [out, retval] IUIAutomationElement ** found );
Pascal:
     // GetRuntimeId :
    function GetRuntimeId:HRESULT;stdcall;
     // FindFirst :
    function
FindFirst(scope:TreeScope;condition:IUIAutomationCondition):HRESULT;stdcall;

Hi,
probably related also to https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=30764 (but this my report is mostly about pointer parameters where NO DIRECTION is specified)
-Laco.