Re: Differences between VB6 and VB.Net causing problem


"Bill McCarthy" <Bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote

In VB6, True is a 32 bit value with all bits set.


No it is not. It is 16 bit in Vb6. If you don't beleive the documentation
try it yourself:


Private Type Foo
a As Boolean


Take note, I did not say a Boolean is 32 bits, I said True is 32 bits.
I simply inferred it by noticing that True converted to a Long yields
a 32 bit value.

When you stuff True into a Byte, you only gets 8 bits, and into a
Boolean, (or Integer) you get 16. But stuff it into a Long and you
get 32 bits.

In any case the facts refute your statement:

"Oh, and for the record, VB6 and VB.NET do NOT store 0 and -1"

VB6 actually does use -1 as the value for True as shown when
converted to Currency or Decimal types. And, if I conceed True is
just 16 bits, they use -1 again when converting to a Long type.

As for documentation, in VB5, I put the cursor on "True" and hit
F1 to see this:

"The True keyword has a value equal to -1."

So how is it you say VB6 does not store -1 for True? What do
they store???

LFS


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