Passing objects between functions

I have a function that creates two objects and shows a form...

Other than making the objects global, is there a way to pass them to the form and its event-driven functions? I'm just using Form.Show to display the form and the event-driven form functions no longer have the objects in scope by the time they run...

I hope my question makes sense to someone here, I'm new to object-oriented programming. I'm familiar with using pointers to pass arrays of data in C but have not used pointers with VBA, not to mention I don't see how even pointers would help me out here...

Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks,

Dave

could you explain a little more?

what are you creating as far as objects go?
are the on the current form?

when you create a new form.. it will have the objects on it that it started with (I think;)) you might need to re-create on the new form?

what functions do you want these objects to be effected in?

what app are you doing this in?

Why not create the objects in the form?

VB Code:

Private Sub Foo()
   Dim objFoo as YourObject
   Set objFoo = Something
   DoFoo objFoo
End Sub
 
Private Sub DoFoo(ByVal objFooFoo as YourObject)
   'do something with objFooFoo
End Sub

You could Dim objFoo in the General Declarations section to make it a form, or module level variable, accessible to event procedures in the form, Setting it in the Form Load event, or just pass it like above, if that works for you.
Or am I misunderstanding you?

you should be able to pass the objects to the a public sub or function on the form

VB Code:

form2.mysub myobj1, myobj2

pete

What I usually do is make a custom property on the form that can be set with the objects that need to be passed to it.

VB Code:

'FORM CODE:
Private oObj1 As CustomObject
Private oObj2 As CustomObject
 
Public Property Set ObjectOne(oInput As CustomObject)
 
    Set oObj1 = oInput
 
End Property
 
Public Property Set ObjectTwo(oInput As CustomObject)
 
    Set oObj2 = oInput
 
End Property

Then, you treat the form like any other object in your code, setting properties, getting return values, etc. I personally use this method to handle all of my forms.

VB Code:

'SUB CODE:
Private Sub Example()
 
    Dim fForm As UserForm1, oObject1 As CustomObject, oObject2 As CustomObject
    
    'Create objects.
    Set oObject1 = New CustomObject
    Set oObject2 = New CustomObject
    
    'Create the form.
    Set fForm = New UserForm1
    'Pass the objects.
    Set fForm.ObjectOne = oObject1
    Set fForm.ObjectTwo = oObject2
    'Show the form.
    fForm.Show
    
    Set oObject1 = Nothing
    Set oObject2 = Nothing
    
    Unload fForm            'Only if you have the form hiding itself.
    Set fForm = Nothing
    
End Sub

I agree 100% with Comintern's approach.
For more on this methodology see this post