Where to dim UDT?

[Egbert Zijlema]

Hi Folks,

My application is going to use an UDT. What is the location within the code to DIM it as an array?
It's not allowed outside a procedure or function.
I tried the following:
within the procedure that uses it for the first time
within the main module (actually as the first line),
but in both cases the compiler does not recognize it.




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[Gregery D Engle]

Here's an example for ya

#COMPILE EXE

TYPE ExampleStruct
     Yoga AS STRING * 25
     Smitty AS LONG
     Hello AS DWORD
END TYPE

FUNCTION PBMAIN() AS LONG
    DIM Example(0 TO 3000) AS LOCAL ExampleStruct
    Example(0).Yoga = "HELLO!"
    Example(0).Smitty = 1
    Example(0).Hello = 123456789
    MSGBOX Example(0).Yoga
    MSGBOX STR$(Example(0).Smitty)
    msgbox str$(Example(0).Hello)
END FUNCTION

Here's another example using Pointers

#COMPILE EXE

TYPE ExampleStruct
     Yoga AS STRING * 25
     Smitty AS LONG
     Hello AS DWORD
END TYPE

FUNCTION PBMAIN() AS LONG
    DIM Example(0 TO 3000) AS LOCAL ExampleStruct
    DIM ExamplePTR AS ExampleStruct PTR
    ExamplePTR = VARPTR(Example(0))
    @ExamplePTR[0].Yoga = "HELLO!"
    @ExamplePTR[0].Smitty = 1
    @ExamplePTR[0].Hello = 123456789
    MSGBOX @ExamplePTR[0].Yoga
    MSGBOX STR$(@ExamplePTR[0].Smitty)
    MSGBOX STR$(@ExamplePTR[0].Hello)
END FUNCTION

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-Greg

[This message has been edited by Gregery D Engle (edited July 20, 2001).]

[Egbert Zijlema]

Thanks Gregery,
Problem solved.
Regards,

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