VFP 6 to VFP 9 conversion problem

[bicyleman9008]

A piece of code that we have in our VFP 5 & 6 (works fine) build reads:

form A
public dime allheaders[45,3]
do form B

form B
external array allheaders

generates and error when we try to build it in VFP 9
"unknown allheaders - undefined"

Can anyone help?

Glenn

 

[SGLong]

Instead of public dime allheaders[45,3]

try public array allheaders[45,3]

Steve

 

[craigber]

This doesn't solve your problem, but why even use PUBLIC variables? They are considered bad because they break encapsulation. Surely there is another way.

Craig Berntson
MCSD, Visual FoxPro MVP,

http://www.craigberntson.com

Author, CrysDev: A Developer's Guide to Integrating Crystal Reports"

 

[bicyleman9008]

We will just rewrite this section differently.
There is always a different way.

Thanks.

 

[Mike Lewis]

Bicycleman,

Yes, that's a good approach, but it would have been nice to know what the cause of the problem was for future reference.

Mike


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[bicyleman9008]

Actually ....
public array DOES work.

Thanks SGLong.

Regarding the use of public variables...this code snippet was a carry over from a DOS upgrade. The DOS version was written in 1988. Up until now it has been fine.