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Subject: Re: Novice VBA question

Author: José Carlos

Date: 10:16:40 04/07/04

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On April 07, 2004 at 12:41:55, Dan Honeycutt wrote:

>On April 07, 2004 at 11:35:25, S J J wrote:
>
>>On April 07, 2004 at 11:06:28, Dan Honeycutt 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
>>>
>>>Make the array global or pass a reference to the array to the subroutine.  If
>>>that's not clear let me know and I'll post skeleton code for you.
>>>
>>>Dan H.
>>
>>
>>Thanks Dan.  Yes, I'd appreciate any skeleton code you could post.
>>Regards,
>>Steve
>
>Steve:
>In the following Sub1 calls Sub1a to place a white rook on square 1 on the
>global board.  Sub2 calls Sub2a to place a white rook on square 1 on a local (to
>Sub2) board.  Sub2a could also take the global board as an arguement.
>
>I see in your post to Andrew what you are doing will operate like Sub2 and
>Sub2a.
>
>Dan H.
>
>Option Explicit
>
>Public Const white_rook = 5
>Public global_board(64) As Integer
>
>Sub Sub1()
>  Sub1a
>  Debug.Print global_board(1)     '5
>End Sub
>
>Sub Sub1a()
>  global_board(1) = white_rook
>End Sub
>
>Sub Sub2()
>  Dim local_board(64) As Integer
>  Sub2a local_board              'note just array name, no ()
>  Debug.Print local_board(1)     '5
>End Sub
>
>Sub Sub2a(any_board() As Integer)
>  any_board(1) = white_rook
>End Sub

  Just a small sugestion: don't use 'integer' because it's 16 bits (-> slow).
Use 'long' instead.

  José C.



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