place user-defined type in binary file

How do I place a user-defined type in a binary file?

example:
Private Type people
age As integer
ssn As Long
End Type

dim employee as people

employee.age=36
employee.ssn=643649832

Put #1, , employee 'gives me an error

Any suggestions? Thanks.

are you using the proper syntax to open the file?

Code:

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f = freefile
Open MyFile for random as #f len = 50 '50 for example purposes

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otherwise, i notice that you have declared the type as private. Are you trying to PUT the variable from another module / form? Try making it public instead of private, unless it interferes with the structure of your program.

[Edited by wossname on 12-11-2000 at 02:05 PM]

I think you should pass both the options

Code:

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Put #1, , employee.ssn
put #1, , employee.age

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or use CopyMemory to copy it in a byte array or something.

Jop, there is no need to do that, VB is capable of preserving UDT structure inside files.

mmkay...
vbuser1:
what error are you getting?

I missed a step, there is an enumeration for age.

ex.
enum agetype
young
old
end enum

Private Type people
age As agetype
ssn As Long
End Type


...
employee.age=young

put #1, , employee

The error I get is : Can't Get or Put an object reference variable or a variable of user-defined type containing an object reference.