How would I declare a global variable in Visual Basic?

Question

I want to create a variable that can be used across multiple forms.

It\'s going to be a temporary storage place for integers.

Answer 1

You can just add it as PUBLIC to ANY Module

Example:

Module Module1 'Global variables Public glbtxtTemplateName As String 'GLOBAL VARIABLE FOR TEMPLATE

VB loads the Modals first as a class and all PUBLIC items therein are shared directly. Think about it this way.

Lets say we have a MODULE called "MY_PROCESSES"

When you declare a SUB or a FUNCTION in "MY_PROCESSES" if you want it to be used OUTSIDE of "MY_PROCESSES" you declare as PUBLIC like this

PUBLIC SUB LOAD_TEMPLATE() ....

To get to LOAD_TEMPLATE you just call it in your code from anywhere:

LOAD_TEMPLATE

So if I need to set or use the global variable that I made public in my module I just refer to it by name:

glbtxtTemplateName="TEMPLATE_NAME"

IF glbtxtTemplateName="" then LoadTemplate

I do like building the class as above because you can reference it faster without remembering the variable but if you only need 1 or 2 global variables you can name them like we used to with Hungarian Notation style name. This method is really quite simple and elegant. Old is new and New is Old.