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Code Red => VB(A) => Topic started by: HasanCAD on November 10, 2012, 11:10:08 PM

Title: What does DIM mean?
Post by: HasanCAD on November 10, 2012, 11:10:08 PM

What does DIM mean?
and what types of data can be declare in?
Thanks

Title: Re: What does DIM mean?
Post by: Kerry on November 10, 2012, 11:50:36 PM

Quote from: HasanCAD on November 10, 2012, 11:10:08 PM

What does DIM mean?
and what types of data can be declare in?
Thanks

Dim is a statement that declares and allocates storage space for one or more variables.
The type of data is declared seperately.

The usual format is :
Dim variableName As DataType

for more on DataTypes refer Visual Basic references on MSDN

Title: Re: What does DIM mean?
Post by: HasanCAD on November 11, 2012, 02:32:54 AM

Thanks Kerry

Title: Re: What does DIM mean?
Post by: fixo on November 11, 2012, 11:15:25 AM

See for more
http://msdn.microsoft.com/ren-US/library/7ee5a7s1.aspx

Title: Re: What does DIM mean?
Post by: Chuck Gabriel on November 11, 2012, 10:20:10 PM

Just for the sake of nostalgia, I'll add this time tidbit.  If memory serves, "dim" was originally short for "dimension," just like in autocad.

Title: Re: What does DIM mean?
Post by: BlackBox on November 12, 2012, 02:39:25 AM

Quote from: Chuck Gabriel on November 11, 2012, 10:20:10 PM

Just for the sake of nostalgia, I'll add this time tidbit.  If memory serves, "dim" was originally short for "dimension," just like in autocad.

... Only unlike AutoCAD, "dimension" originates from FORTRAN, and even Dartmouth BASIC's need to dimension Arrays.

Later "declare in memory" was added as more data types were available.

Title: Re: What does DIM mean?
Post by: It's Alive! on November 14, 2012, 07:26:15 PM

DIM = someone with crazy ideas that could be considered dangerous   :laugh:
Just kidding

Title: Re: What does DIM mean?
Post by: Kerry on November 14, 2012, 08:40:20 PM

Quote from: Synonyms for Dim

blah, bleary, blurred, caliginous, cloudy, dark, dingy, dreary, dull, dusk, dusky, faded, faint, flat, fuzzy, gloomy, gray, ill-defined, indistinct, lackluster, lightless, mat, monotone, monotonous, murky, muted, obscured, opaque, overcast, pale, poorly lit, shadowy, sullied, tarnished, tenebrous, unclear, unilluminated, vague, weak

 :|

 :angel: