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Trouble clearing the data in a UDT

form level for udt's
Private Type Info_UDT
CompanyName As Byte
Address As Byte
sDate As Byte
City As Byte
State As Byte
Zip As Byte
Estimator As Byte
BidAmount As Byte
sqs As Byte
BidMaterial As Byte
Email As Byte
Bid2Material As Byte
Bid2Amount As Byte
BusYrs As Byte
TempNotUsed As Byte ' for future use if needed
End Type

Private Type Recap_UDT
CompanyName As Byte
Estimator As Byte
sDate As Byte
BidAmount As Byte
BidMaterial As Byte
Bid2Amount As Byte
Bid2Material As Byte
sqs As Byte
BusYrs As Byte
TempNotUsed As Byte ' for future use if needed
End Type

Private Type Phone_UDT
Cell As String
Office As String
Emergency As String
Fax As String
Owner As String
LasrRow As String
TempNotUsed As String ' for future use if needed
End Type

Private Type Task_UDT
DaysComplete As String
ReceivedWork As String
ReceivedPLPD As String
CompanySubContractor As String
ReceivedSubWork As String
ReceivedSubPLPD As String
FutureUse As String 'not used
TempNotUsed As String ' for future use if needed
End Type

Private Type RoofCompany_UDT
CompanyName As String
Address As String
City As String
State As String
Zip As String
sqs As String
BidAmount As String
BidMaterial As String
Bid2Amount As String
Bid2Material As String
sDate As String
BusYrs As String
Estimator As String
Email As String
Notes As String
TempNotUsed As String ' for future use if needed
Phones As Phone_UDT
Tasks As Task_UDT
End Type

Private RoofCompany() As RoofCompany_UDT
Private Info As Info_UDT

I copied and pasted the udt's and am trying to clear the udt's
The Info and Recap clear ok, but when i try to clear the Phone_UDT i get errors no matter what i try
How to clear the data in the Phone_UDT ?

Sub ClearUdts()
With Info
  .CompanyName = 0
  .Address = 0
  .sDate = 0
  .City = 0
  .State = 0
  .Zip = 0
  .Estimator = 0
  .BidAmount = 0
  .sqs = 0
  .BidMaterial = 0
  .Email = 0
  .Bid2Material = 0
  .Bid2Amount = 0
  .BusYrs = 0
  .TempNotUsed = 0 ' for future use if needed
End With

With Recap
  .CompanyName = 0
  .Estimator = 0
  .sDate = 0
  .BidAmount = 0
  .BidMaterial = 0
  .Bid2Amount = 0
  .Bid2Material = 0
  .sqs = 0
  .BusYrs = 0
   .TempNotUsed = 0    ' for future use if needed
End With

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Martin Liss

Set the values = "" rather than 0.

If that doesn't work please show what you tried.

Martin Liss

In other words

Private Phone As Phone_UDT

With Phone
  .Cell   =  ""
  .Office   =  ""
  .Emergency   =  ""
  .Fax   =  ""
  .Owner   =  ""
  .LasrRow   =  ""
  .TempNotUsed   =  ""
End With

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isnoend2001

ASKER

Thanks that gives an error
With Phone 'variable undefined
.Cell = ""
.Office = ""
.Emergency = ""
.Fax = ""
.Owner = ""
.LasrRow = ""
.TempNotUsed = ""
I have tried these to no avail, probably erased other attempts
With RoofCompany(CurrentCompany)
'PhoneContact = ""
'Phones.Cell = ""
'PhoneInfo(.Phones.Cell) = ""
''PhoneInfo(.Phones.Office) = ""
'PhoneContact(0) = ""
'' PhoneContact = PhoneInfo(.Phones.Cell)
' PhoneContact(1) = ""
End With

Martin Liss

Did you see line 1 in my code? That line needs to be in the same module/form as the rest of the code. If it is someplace else make it Public rather than Private.

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isnoend2001

ASKER

Thanks
btw changing the 0 to "" gives a type mismatch

Martin Liss

btw changing the 0 to "" gives a type mismatch

I assume you mean when the variable is defined as Byte. A String variable (as in my post ID: 40339752) will be OK.

isnoend2001

ASKER

Thanks martinLiss
Re: btw changing the 0 to "" gives a type mismatch
Not sure if that would effect coding in other places
Posted a question to another site VBWire and the coder who answered decided to write the program.
Not sure how it happened
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?775021-RESOLVED-How-to-Save-classes-to-binary-file-vb6

This program started as a app for Home Owners to track and compare different roofing bids
In talking to my sister who was getting Landscaping bids, she said "Too bad it would not track other Home
Owner bid types, so i decided to modify it so it would by using a combobox. My plan was this:
Make folders for each item in the combobox under the Home Owners Name-Address folder.
and add array to hold the full paths to the cbo items. This is why i need to reset all the UDT values.
Most of the code is over my head.
Is there a reason for changing the the byte to string ?

Martin Liss

Byte variables may have their place since they are smaller and faster than strings but unless your app is slow/and or bloated and you are needing to optimize it, IMO they aren't needed. In fact if you are trying to store text values then you can't use them because it won't compile. For example I changed the code above a bit and added two versions of "Owner", one Byte and one String and line 30 is a problem. Just in case you don't know, your UDTs don't have to be all Byte or all String. Each variable in the UDT can be whatever variable type is most appropriate.

Option Explicit
Private Type Phone_UDT
  Cell      As String
  Office    As String
  Emergency As String
  Fax       As String
  Owner_String     As String
  Owner_Byte As Byte
  LasrRow   As String
  TempNotUsed   As String ' for future use if needed
End Type
Private Phone As Phone_UDT


Sub Initialize()
With Phone
  .Cell = ""
  .Office = ""
  .Emergency = ""
  .Fax = ""
  .Owner_String = ""
  .Owner_Byte = 0
  .LasrRow = ""
  .TempNotUsed = ""
End With
End Sub

Private Sub Command1_Click()
Phone.Owner_String = "Marty"
Phone.Owner_Byte = "Marty" ' <-- Type Mismatch error
MsgBox Phone.Owner_Byte
Initialize
MsgBox Phone.Owner_Byte
End Sub

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isnoend2001

ASKER

Thanks, good to know
i am sure i will have more questions by the this project is done
Thanks for the help on adding and making new cbo items selected and now
this clearing udt's.
Glad you are here

Martin Liss

So am I:)