Passing Arguments

[anonymous]

[Originally posted by Terry Ward]

How do I pass information/data/text between forms?

[anonymous]

[Originally posted by Nick Dawkes]

there are many ways:
The two most obvious are
Declare some varaibles as public in a bas module
this then means that the values within them can be accessed by any code in the project, but can also be changed by anycode in the project.

The other less flexible way but for which you have more control is to create a public sub in each form which then becomes a method for that form ie public sub myshow()
then instead of doing form.show use form.myshow
You can then define the vars that you want to pass as arguments ie
Public sub myshow(var1 as string, var2 as integer etc)

ÿ 'put code in here for assigning argument to varsÿ local to form

ÿ me.show
end sub


hope this helps
nick

[anonymous]

[Originally posted by modigliani]

For forms and objects, another way is to create public properties.

Public variables are OK in a small project, but in a large project they tend to cause bugs and are generally considered to be poor practice.

[anonymous]

[Originally posted by Nick Dawkes]

I agree thats why I said whilst all values are available to all code, they can be changed by any piece of code, this can be good but it can be bad. It therefore much more controlled to pass variables as arguments.

[anonymous]

[Originally posted by nesse]

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