Private: (Access Control)type

Specifies private member access control in a Type or Class

Syntax

Type typename

Private:

member declarations

End Type

Parameters

Name		Description
`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.

Remarks

Dialect Differences

Available only in the -lang fb dialect.

Differences from QB

New to FreeBASIC

Example

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"

Reference

Documented in KeyPgVisPrivate.html