Public Variable in 6.0

[noname]

How do you declare a variable and use a variable which is availabe in any form.

Thankyou

[Paul282]

Public MyVar As Integer ' Or Long, Variant, String etc

But it has to be in a Module, not in a form. A public variable in a form is only accessable to that form's functions and subs.

Public Arrays must be declared in modules too.

You can also use the Global Keyword.

[Mark Sreeves]

But it has to be in a Module, not in a form. A public variable in a form is only accessable to that form's functions and subs.

Public Arrays must be declared in modules too.

That's not strictly true because public variables in a form are accesable to other parts of the program while the form is loaded


form1:

Option Explicit
Public intNum As Integer

Private Sub Command1_Click()
Form2.Show
End Sub

Private Sub Form_Load()
intNum = 5

Form1.intNum = 8
MsgBox Form1.intNum

End Sub

form2:

Option Explicit

Private Sub Command1_Click()
MsgBox Form1.intNum
End Sub

but yes, public variables would normally go in a module.

Public is ususlly rather than Globalthese days.

Global is a hanger-on from older versions of (Visual) Basic