Greetings,
I am writing some vb code in excel (version that comes with Office 2000).

I am a programmer, and really haven't dealt with excel before.

If I define a public variable on the workbook, can I initialize it at
definition ?

ie,
public test as integer init 0

How do I initialize the variable (or determine it needs initialization)
before using it ?

thanks,
-D

Darryl,

You can use a constant

Public Const test As Integer = 0

of course, that stops you changing it later.

--

HTH

RP
(remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct)


"Darryl" wrote in message
...
Greetings,
I am writing some vb code in excel (version that comes with Office 2000).

I am a programmer, and really haven't dealt with excel before.

If I define a public variable on the workbook, can I initialize it at
definition ?

ie,
public test as integer init 0

How do I initialize the variable (or determine it needs initialization)
before using it ?

thanks,
-D

Sorry I wasn't very clear.
I need it to be a variable as I'm going to increment it as I do
certain things.


"Bob Phillips" wrote in message
...
Darryl,

You can use a constant

Public Const test As Integer = 0

of course, that stops you changing it later.

--

HTH

RP
(remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct)


"Darryl" wrote in message
...
Greetings,
I am writing some vb code in excel (version that comes with Office
2000).

I am a programmer, and really haven't dealt with excel before.

If I define a public variable on the workbook, can I initialize it at
definition ?

ie,
public test as integer init 0

How do I initialize the variable (or determine it needs initialization)
before using it ?

thanks,
-D

Then you can't initialise is as you thought. What you can do is something
like this

Public test As Variant

Sub myCode()

If IsEmpty(test) Then
test = 0
End If
'rest of code

End Sub


--

HTH

RP
(remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct)


"Darryl" wrote in message
...
Sorry I wasn't very clear.
I need it to be a variable as I'm going to increment it as I do
certain things.


"Bob Phillips" wrote in message
...
Darryl,

You can use a constant

Public Const test As Integer = 0

of course, that stops you changing it later.

--

HTH

RP
(remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct)


"Darryl" wrote in message
...
Greetings,
I am writing some vb code in excel (version that comes with Office
2000).

I am a programmer, and really haven't dealt with excel before.

If I define a public variable on the workbook, can I initialize it at
definition ?

ie,
public test as integer init 0

How do I initialize the variable (or determine it needs
initialization)
before using it ?

thanks,
-D

OK.
If I define a variable that is integer, is it automatically initialized to 0
or can
it be any old garbage ?

I'm going to keep adding 1 to the variable each time a button is pressed and
I don't want to do something like
test = test +1
if test is garbage.

thanks,
D

I assume that IsEmpty only works with variant type variables ?

"Bob Phillips" wrote in message
...
Then you can't initialise is as you thought. What you can do is something
like this

Public test As Variant

Sub myCode()

If IsEmpty(test) Then
test = 0
End If
'rest of code

End Sub


--

HTH

RP
(remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct)


"Darryl" wrote in message
...
Sorry I wasn't very clear.
I need it to be a variable as I'm going to increment it as I do
certain things.


"Bob Phillips" wrote in message
...
Darryl,

You can use a constant

Public Const test As Integer = 0

of course, that stops you changing it later.

--

HTH

RP
(remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct)


"Darryl" wrote in message
...
Greetings,
I am writing some vb code in excel (version that comes with Office
2000).

I am a programmer, and really haven't dealt with excel before.

If I define a public variable on the workbook, can I initialize it
at
definition ?

ie,
public test as integer init 0

How do I initialize the variable (or determine it needs
initialization)
before using it ?

thanks,
-D

Yes, an integer initialises to 0 every time.

--

HTH

RP
(remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct)


"Darryl" wrote in message
...
OK.
If I define a variable that is integer, is it automatically initialized to
0
or can
it be any old garbage ?

I'm going to keep adding 1 to the variable each time a button is pressed
and
I don't want to do something like
test = test +1
if test is garbage.

thanks,
D

I assume that IsEmpty only works with variant type variables ?

"Bob Phillips" wrote in message
...
Then you can't initialise is as you thought. What you can do is
something
like this

Public test As Variant

Sub myCode()

If IsEmpty(test) Then
test = 0
End If
'rest of code

End Sub


--

HTH

RP
(remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct)


"Darryl" wrote in message
...
Sorry I wasn't very clear.
I need it to be a variable as I'm going to increment it as I do
certain things.


"Bob Phillips" wrote in message
...
Darryl,

You can use a constant

Public Const test As Integer = 0

of course, that stops you changing it later.

--

HTH

RP
(remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct)


"Darryl" wrote in message
...
Greetings,
I am writing some vb code in excel (version that comes with Office
2000).

I am a programmer, and really haven't dealt with excel before.

If I define a public variable on the workbook, can I initialize it
at
definition ?

ie,
public test as integer init 0

How do I initialize the variable (or determine it needs
initialization)
before using it ?

thanks,
-D