[RESOLVED] Invisible sub routine in module??

[greythej]

i am creating a module that allows me to search a database.

Within the module i need a sub routine that the module calls, but is invisible to the user when he calls the module.

If i made the sub routine private, it would be invisible to the user but the module couldn't call it either, could it??

Please say if you don't understand!!

Cheers

GTJ

[Hack]

Please say if you don't understand!!

Cheers

GTJ

Ok. I don't understand.

If you compile the program, which I assume you would be doing, then everything within it would not be accessable to anyone that did not have the source code. If someone did have the source code, then everything would be accessable.

Also, if you put a Private Sub in module it would be accessable from nowhere in the project.

[penagate]

Within the module i need a sub routine that the module calls, but is invisible to the user when he calls the module.

If i made the sub routine private, it would be invisible to the user but the module couldn't call it either, could it??

If that was true, making routines Private would be a bit pointless eh?

Private methods can be called from within the module they are located, but not from outside that module.

[namrekka]

I think he means:

Private Sub BlaBla()
 
End Sub

or:

Public Sub BlaBla()
 
End Sub

[namrekka]

If i made the sub routine private, it would be invisible to the user but the module couldn't call it either, could it??

In the module you can call a private sub. It is invisible outside the module.

[penagate]

In the module you can call a private sub. It is invisible outside the module.

Thank you for clarifying and reiterating my answer.

[namrekka]

I'm sorry. We where posting at nearly at the same time. I mis read your post there for.

[penagate]

In that case, no worries

[Nove]

What's all this "invisible" nonsense? That has to be the worst way of describing scope I've ever heard.

[Hack]

Enough chit chat and if someone does not understand the scope of the question, please be polite and respectful when asking for clarification.

[greythej]

cheers everyone except Nove. No need to go so mental, i just didn't know that word...

GTJ

[Joacim Andersson]

What's all this "invisible" nonsense? That has to be the worst way of describing scope I've ever heard.

I don't agree with that at all. A private scope is often described as:

not being visible to the outside world

To me "not visible" and "invisible" is the exact same thing.

[greythej]

good man Joacim Andersson...

[Nove]

Oh, sorry, I didn't mean it to be taken as an insult.
I was a little hung up on thinking about how a function would be visible, I understand that you might call certain variables invisible (as you can't identify their value), but I don't think that really stands with functions or subroutines, as all you really do is call them, right?

[greythej]

yer, but ion this case i meant the sub routine needs to be invisible to the programmer calling the module...

[vbcode1980]

So you want to hide the code in the development environment (Visual Basic)

[greythej]

no, don't worry... but out of interest, is that possible???

[Hack]

no, don't worry... but out of interest, is that possible???

No, you aren't going to hide code from a programmer that has full access to the source.