PRIVATE: (Access Control)

• Source: https://www.freebasic.net/wiki/wikka.php?wakka=KeyPgVisPrivate
• Last revised: 2022-04-23

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Specifies private member access control in a Type or Class

Syntax

Type typename

Private:

member declarations

End Type

Parameters

typename

name of the Type or Class

member declarations

declarations for fields, functions, or enumerations

Description

Private: indicates that member declarations following it have private access.

Private members are accessible only from inside a member procedure of their Type or Class. Seen from inside such a member procedure, it is as if the protected member is in fact public, and that regardless of the object on which the access operator is applied.

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

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

Examples

start GeSHi

Type testing
  number As Integer
  Private:
    nome As String
  Declare Sub setNome( ByRef newnome As String )
End Type

Sub testing.setnome( ByRef newnome As String )
  '' This is OK. We're inside a member function for the type
  This.nome = newnome
End Sub

Dim As testing myVariable

'' This is OK, number is public
myVariable.number = 69

'' this would generate a compile error
'' - nome is private and we're trying to access it outside any of this TYPE's member functions
'' myVariable.nome = "FreeBASIC"

end GeSHi

Dialect Differences

• Available only in the -lang fb dialect.

Differences from QB

• New to FreeBASIC

See also

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

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