Boolean Data Type

[Shawn Tartaglia]

I did not see a Boolean data type in the manual. Does PB/DLL 6 support such a beast?

[Joseph E Murphy]

Just use a Long data type

VB Code:
Dim Bool1 as boolean
Dim Bool2 as boolean
Dim Bool3 as boolean

Bool1 = CBool(x1 > x2)
Bool2 = CBool(x3 < x4)
Bool3 = Bool1 AND Bool2
If Bool3 Then
...
PB equivalent

Dim nBool1 as Long
Dim nBool2 as Long
Dim nBool3 as Long

nBool1 = (x1 > x2)
nBool2 = (x3 < x4)
nBool3 = nBool1 and nBool2
If nBool3 then 
...

Hope this helps

Joe Murphy

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[Colin Schmidt]

Just a side note in case your wondering why you have to use a LONG and waist 31 bits on a %True/%False value: Our modern 32bit processors can process the LONG (or DWORD) much faster than they can a single bit BOOL. Thus this also applies to all other data types. If you want to have it as fast as possible, use a 32bit data type. For example, as opposed to the old DOS days, using and integer for counting is not faster than using a long. The other data types still exists for the cases where size is the priority as opposed to computation.

Coin Schmidt

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Colin Schmidt & James Duffy, Praxis Enterprises, Canada