Visual Basic 6: Public versus Private Function

Nilesh Hapse

Well I don't know if anyone has seen this horror in Visual Basic 6.0 code. One of my colleague was doing his assignment. Now say there are three functions Function1, Function2, Function3. Function1 is calling Function2. But instead of going to Function2 it goes to Function3 :doh: . Now I've seen this my own eyes :confused: . We did try keeping a breakpoint at the call of Function2 from Function1. When this breakpoint is hit and I tried debugging it through F8 key. And I could not believe my eyes. It was going into Function3. Well after some trial and errors, I changed the function definition of Function3 from Public to Private and guess what??? It worked:laugh:. Now the code works fine. Any idea why this was happening? Has anybody seen this before?

Mike Dimmick

Surprisingly, compilers have bugs too. Have you installed Service Pack 6?

Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder

Nilesh Hapse

Yes! I have isntalled SP6...

Pete OHanlon

I think that the coding horror here is that you are still using VB6.

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NormDroid

Solution: Don't use VB.

Roger Irrelevant "he's completely hatstand"

Nilesh Hapse

;P;PIf you read my message carefully it's not me who is using VB. It's my colleague.

Nilesh Hapse

I'm not! I'm using VB.NET and C#

Pete OHanlon

Nilesh Hapse wrote:

If you read my message carefully it's not me who is using VB. It's my colleague.

That's what they all say. "Officer, I wasn't coding in VB6. It was my, errrm, friend."

Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.

trelliot

There may be a question of scope - your colleague may have inadvertently named Function2 with a global so that if you had: Function1() Function2() Function3() and did not have debugging libraries installed, the code for Function2 (the wrong Function2 in this case) would execute and the debugger would step into Function3. The sequence would be: begin Function1 execute code (possibly under debugger) end Function1 begin and execute WrongFunction2 (debugger can't enter the code so it executes WrongFunction2) begin Function3 execute code end function

PIEBALDconsult

Can you provide some code that exhibits the behaviour?

Chris Maunder

Please post the code so we can explain why it's user error and not a problem with the compiler. I have a feeling there's a true Coding Horror lying in wait for us.

cheers, Chris Maunder

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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar

Mike Dimmick wrote:

compilers have bugs too

And to fuel it, it is Visual Basic 6. :mad: :)

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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar

Pete O`Hanlon wrote:

That's what they all say.

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dojohansen

I'd change the variable name to "lie", but otherwise the code is fine...

realJSOP

Try

#define public private

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