Public User Defined Types

[TheVader]

I'm trying to use a public User Defined Type from within a class module. The UDT has been declared in a public module, the instance in a class module, like this:

'Module:
Public Type tText
    Font As String
    Format As String
End Type
 
'Class Module
Public Text as tText

This is not allowed, apparently. The compiler gives me this error:

Constants, fixed-length strings, arrays, user-defined types and Declare statements not allowed as Public members of object modules.

Why can't UDT's be used publicly?

[MartinLiss]

Don't use the UDT. Create a dummy class containing Public variables with the same names and definitions.

[plenderj]

There's no point in using a UDT from within a Class Module. A Class Module will provide you with all of the capabilities of a UDT with additional OO functionality.

[dannymking]

one slight thing...

Public Text as tText

Reserved word.. won't work because of that

try

Public sText As tText

[TheVader]

Thanks for your replies. I've been using lots of class modules in my application and therefore I was trying UDT's; in this case I'd have to add five new class modules holding only a few variables each. It clutters up my structure...

@dannymking: good catch, hadn't noticed that.

[Joacim Andersson]

one slight thing...
Public Text as tText
Reserved word.. won't work because of that

Text is not a reserved word.