I am developping an ActiveX control (in VB5) that is like a TextBox control
that can only hold numbers. What I want my control to do is to  let me
forget about masking and validatting the numbers an user can enter in my
control.
The idea is that I will have a Number property that will let an get the
value of the number shown in the control. The problem is that with another
property I set the kind of number it if expected to be entered by the user
(integer, long integer, single precision, double precision, etc.). My number
property should return (and expect) the type of data specified by the other
property. The question is: How can I declare a property without specifing
its type (the AS clause)?

I don't want to use a Variant type because I don't have control over the
conversion (from variant to integer/long/single/etc.) And I know for
experience that conversion which depends on international configurations
brings me problems...

I heard that if I were programming in C what I could use is a Class
Template... but I want to do it with VB5!!

Any ideas?
Thanks!!

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Pedro J. Rusjan

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I think you will have to use a variant. But when the user passes you the
initial value you can work out what type has been passed to your variant.
(The VarType() function I think.)

When the user gets the value back have a Select Case construct that does the
appropriate CInt, CCur, CDbl, etc to cast your value back as the same type
through the variant.

Regards,
Simon Jones
PC Pro Magazine