How to make vB remember a value between forms?

[frail]

Hi! I'm using a database to store the values for my project. I'm designing a simple payroll.

I want to calculate the gross salary of an employee, to do this I have to get the hourly rate of that person (I have that stored on a table) and multiply it by the total of hours worked (those values I store on a different table).

I'm having problems taking the hourly rate from the other table to do the math calculation. When I input the values into the database I had to do it on another form, and they're on another table so I really have no idea how I should call it. I've tried it several ways but Visual Basic always records it as 0.

Oh... and I wish I could, but I can't make any changes to my database. Teacher's orders. blah. :(

Thanks so much in advance for your help. I wasn't sure what code to paste here so... if you need me to expand more on the problem with some coding let me know. :]

[Torgg]

If your using VB6 then you can add a Module to your project and then at the top declare some global variables, like so...

Global MyGlobalVar As String

If your using VB.NET then add a Module to your project and then at the top declare your global variables like so...

Public myGlobalVar As String

This approach stores your values in a central location for use from any form.

I'm not saying that this is good coding practice. I'm only giving you an answer to your question. If you want a more robust method of doing the work then based on your explanation of the project your working on, I would create all the forms required to handle data input and have all that data stored in the database (like you've already done). Then I would create function to retrieve all the data from the database manipulate it then output it to the user. Others here may have better advise.

Hope this helps,
Torgg

[debasisdas]

You need to declare some public variables.

[robertko2]

Yes, Public variables. I had the same problem several years ago, but after creating a module called Variables (Or whatever), I keep all my variable declarations in that module "Public MyVar1, MyVar2, MyVar3 As Single" etc.

Haven't had the problem with forgotten variable values since.

Hope this helped,
Robert