Use gdk_window_invalidate instead of gtk_widget_queue_draw as the latter doesn't...

[wxWidgets.git] / src / common / variant.cpp

diff --git a/src/common/variant.cpp b/src/common/variant.cpp
index 6d67625a5f8a5a0d36d819fe8079d6af7e487f93..627edfbef604c42ad8cfd7bbae749eebaf28189c 100644 (file)
--- a/src/common/variant.cpp
+++ b/src/common/variant.cpp
@@ -1182,7 +1182,11 @@ void wxVariant::operator= (void* value)
 
 void* wxVariant::GetVoidPtr() const
 {
-    wxASSERT( (GetType() == wxT("void*")) );
+    // handling this specially is convenient when working with COM, see #9873
+    if ( IsNull() )
+        return NULL;
+
+    wxASSERT( GetType() == wxT("void*") );
 
     return (void*) ((wxVariantDataVoidPtr*) m_data)->GetValue();
 }