[Resolved] Visual Basic 6 Type/End Type Frustration

[WaffleMan]

I'm working on a game in VB6. In a seperate module, I've declared a bunch of Public Types, then declared some variables to represent them. What I want to do is have those variables transfer over to other forms.

However, when I do try to represent the declaration (i.e., foo.bar or whatever) in another Form, VB6 complains that that declaration doesn't exist. I thought that when you declare/DIM something in a module it's automatically made public.

I've declared the type structs (if that's what you call them) before any Subs within the module.

Hope I've explained it correctly.

[yetifoot]

Its been a long time but i think you have to declare them GLOBAL in a module, ie:

Code:

Global foo As bar

[WaffleMan]

That worked. Thanks.

[na_th_an]

It's better to define the stuff as public, and then use the correct naming convention to access it. For example, say you have this module called MOMO.BAS:

Code:

Public value As Integer

Public Sub mysub (ByVal i As Integer)
   Print i
End Sub

You use momo.value to read/write to the variable, or momo.mysub to call the sub,

Avoid globals, most of the time they are *not* needed.