On May 28, 2006, at 3:53 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
W.r.t. VB to RB conversion, some legacy code has turned up a puzzle.
The puzzle is: How should the bang operator (!) be translated to RB?
Looking at undocumented code in a database context, it looks as if
!x is equivalent to ("x") and ![x y] is equivalent to ("x y"),
but one
also finds code such as
With XXX
!NameID = txtFields(2).text
. . .
End with
and code such as
frmTemp!cmdOK.Top = . . .
frmTemp!linD(2).X = . . .
where it appears that the symbol ! can be replaced by the period.
MS VB5 manuals are strangely silent (as if the bang operator does
not exist), yet the VB5 compiler accepts the ! notation and produces
usable code. The VB5 Help facility is also silent on the subject,
although it accepts the ! as an query input.
So, is there advice as to conversion of this phantom?
my VB 5 reference shows this one at least 3 time in the help (right
at the beginning)
! as a data type (single)
! as a DAO operator for the table defs collections
! as an operator for the LIKE operator used as a NOT
it does not mention the use to reference an item on another form
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