Using variables in different forms

[Pentax]

Can anyone tell med how I can declare a variable, i.e. a string in the (General) in one form and use it in another form?
I have tried Form2.txt (where txt is the name of a string declared in the (general) of Form2) but it doesn't work.
Is there other ways to get information from one form to another?

Also:
How can I load the contents of a sequential file into a string? I have one method, loading it into a RichTextBox, but now I want it to get into the string without showing on the screen.
To read it line by line takes to much memory (and time) with big files.

Thanks in advance!


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Wilhelm Tunemyr,
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[Razzle]

To declare a variable for all forms you have to declare it as Public.
Just write Public instead of Dim.
For Example:
Public txt$
Then you can access the txt variable form everywhere in the application.

To load a text from a textfile:

Open Textfilename for Input as #1
Text1.text = Input(Lof(1), 1)
Close #1

This is really fast and puts all the content of the file into a textbox

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Razzle
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[MartinLiss]

Public variables are usually placed in the Declarations section of a code module rather than a form. That way you can use a naming scheme such as g_strMyVar where the g_ means that it's global (that is, available everywhere), and the str indicates that it's a String. If the variable where in the Declaration section of a form, it would be named m_strMyVar, where m_ is for module level.

As for your second question, read the fist line into a string variable, for example strMyVar, and then for all other reads say something like strMyVar = strMyVar & datafromnextread

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Marty
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