Public Access Control

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Public: (Access Control)

Specifies public member access control in a Type or Class

Syntax

Type typename
Public:
member declarations
End Type

Parameters

• typename
• member declarations

Description

Public: indicates that member declarations following it have public access.
Public members are accessible with any usage of the Type or Class.

member declarations following Public: are public until a different access control specifier is given, like Private: or Protected:

Members in a Type declaration are Public: by default if no member access control specifier is given.

Remarks

Dialect Differences

• Available only in the -lang fb dialect.

Differences from QB

• New to FreeBASIC

See also

• Class
• Private: (Access Control)
• Protected: (Access Control)
• Public
• Type

Examples

Type testing

  Private:

    nome As String

  Public:

    number As Integer

  Declare Sub setNome( ByRef newnome As String )

End Type

Sub testing.setnome( ByRef newnome As String )

  this.nome = newnome

End Sub

Dim As testing myVariable

'' We can access these members anywhere since

'' they're public

myVariable.number = 69 ''

myVariable.setNome( "FreeBASIC" )

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