How to utilise "Me" in a public function

[Keith]

A2003, XP Pro.

I have a VBA routine that I use to record data transactions in a history
table. I'd like to use this routine for every form in my app by putting it
in a public function and calling it from each form. Trouble is, the code
uses the "Me" keyword throughout to refer to data objects and I can't quite
fathom out how to pass it to my function and how to handle it once it's
there.

Any pointers?

Many thanks.
Keith.

[Keith]

"Keith" <ke*********@baeAWAYWITHITsystems.com> wrote in message
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A2003, XP Pro.

I have a VBA routine that I use to record data transactions in a history
table. I'd like to use this routine for every form in my app by putting
it in a public function and calling it from each form. Trouble is, the
code uses the "Me" keyword throughout to refer to data objects and I can't
quite fathom out how to pass it to my function and how to handle it once
it's there.

Doesn't matter, sussed it. If anyone's interested, you pass the "Me"
keyword to a "Form" object in the function. Hope that makes sense :o)

[MLH]

You could pass the formname to the function on each call.
I realize that would mean modifying the call to your public
procedure on each and every form that calls it, but its sure
to work.

[David W. Fenton]

MLH <CR**@NorthState.net> wrote in
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You could pass the formname to the function on each call.
I realize that would mean modifying the call to your public
procedure on each and every form that calls it, but its sure
to work.

That's not the best solution, as you'd then have to look up the form
in the forms collection.

The best solution is to pass a form reference as a parameter of your
subroutine:

Public Sub DoSomething(frm As Form)
Set frm.Visible = True
[etc.]
End Sub

And you'd call it in any form like this:

Call DoSomething(Me)

That passes (By Reference) a pointer to the original form instance.
Passing the name would then require a lookup, and that's
inefficient.

Also, doing it with passing the form reference means that "Me" in
your subroutine can simply be replaced with "frm", whereas you'd
still have to set up some kind of object within the subroutine if
passing the form name (though you could do a WITH block, if it
worked for the code you had there).

--
David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton
dfenton at bway dot net http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc

[Keith]

"David W. Fenton" <dX********@bway.net.invalid> wrote in message
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The best solution is to pass a form reference as a parameter of your
subroutine:

Public Sub DoSomething(frm As Form)
Set frm.Visible = True
[etc.]
End Sub

And you'd call it in any form like this:

Call DoSomething(Me)

That's exactly what I have done David, I managed to suss it out about an
hour after the OP.