Author: Dan Honeycutt
Date: 09:45:06 04/07/04
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On April 07, 2004 at 11:56:44, Andrew Wagner wrote: >On April 07, 2004 at 11:39:27, S J J wrote: > >>On April 07, 2004 at 11:35:56, S J J wrote: >> >>>On April 07, 2004 at 11:05:48, Andrew Wagner wrote: >>> >>>>On April 07, 2004 at 10:50:17, S J J wrote: >>>> >>>>> I've been writing a program using Visual Basic. The pieces are >>>>>being stored in an Array. When the pieces are moved within the >>>>>subroutine which the Array was created in, all the pieces move >>>>>correctly. However, when another subroutine is asked to work >>>>>on the Array, I get the message "Compile error: Sub or Function not defined". >>>>> Are there any ideas as to what is causing the problem or what can be done >>>>>to fix it? >>>>> >>>>>Thanks, >>>>>Steve >>>> >>>> >>>>Sounds to me like a scope problem. You need to make the array global, or at >>>>least module-level for other procedures to be able to work on it. Hope that >>>>helps. Andrew >> >>Thanks Andrew. I currently creating the Array in the following command: >> >>Sub WhiteMoveArray() >>Dim MoveArray(1 To 10000, 1 To 100) >> >> >> >> Any ideas as to how to fix it? >>Regards, >>Steve > >Argh. I don't have VB 6 installed anymore, and it's amazing how fast you forget >what it looks like. At any rate, You should have something like this: > >Sub Main() >. >. >. >End Sub > >Sub WhiteMoveArray() >Dim MoveArray(1 To 10000, 1 To 100) >. >. >. >End Sub > >Sub SomeOtherSubRoutine() >MoveArray(1) = blah 'This won't work as you have it now. >. >. >. >End Sub > > > > >What you want is this: > >Dim MoveArray(1 To 10000, 1 To 100) >Sub Main() >. >. >. >End Sub > >Sub WhiteMoveArray() >. >. >. >End Sub > >Sub SomeOtherSubRoutine() >MoveArray(1) = blah 'Now this should work. In fact, MoveArray() should > 'now be accessible to any Sub/Function defined on > 'this form. >. >. >. >End Sub > > >Hope that helps! Andrew Andrew - you are using a global array (which works) but i think what he wants to do is use a local array. Dan H.
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