Constants

Table 1. Color Constants
Constant Value Description
vbBlack &h00 Black
vbRed &hFF Red
vbGreen &hFF00 Green
vbYellow &hFFFF Yellow
vbBlue &hFF0000 Blue
vbMagenta &hFF00FF Magenta
vbCyan &hFFFF00 Cyan
vbWhite &hFFFFFF White
Table 2. Comparison Constants
Constant Value Description
vbBinaryCompare 0 Perform a binary comparison
vbTextCompare 1 Perform a textual comparison
Table 3. Date & Time Constants
Constant Value Description
vbSunday 1 Sunday
vbMonday 2 Monday
vbTuesday 3 Tuesday
vbWednesday 4 Wednesday
vbThursday 5 Thursday
vbFriday 6 Friday
vbSaturday 7 Saturday
vbUseSystemDayOfWeek 0 Use the day of the week specified in your system settings for the first day of the week.
vbFirstJan1 1 Use the week in which January 1 occurs (default).
vbFirstFourDays 2 Use the first week that has at least four days in the new year.
vbFirstFullWeek 3 Use the first full week of the year.
Table 4. Date Format Constants
Constant Value Description
vbGeneralDate 0 Display a date and/or time. For real numbers, display a date and time. If there is no fractional part, display only a date. If there is no integer part, display time only. Date and time display is determined by your system settings.
vbLongDate 1 Display a date using the long date format specified in your computer’s regional settings.
vbShortDate 2 Display a date using the short date format specified in your computer’s regional settings.
vbLongTime 3 Display a time using the long time format specified in your computer’s regional settings.
vbShortTime 4 Display a time using the short time format specified in your computer’s regional settings.
Table 5. Miscellaneous Constants
Constant Value Description
vbObjectError -2147221504 User-defined error numbers should be greater than this value.
Table 6. Box Constants – Buttons & Icons
Constant Value Description
vbOKOnly 0 Display OK button only.
vbOKCancel 1 Display OK and Cancel buttons.
vbAbortRetryIgnore 2 Display Abort, Retry, and Ignore buttons.
vbYesNoCancel 3 Display Yes, No, and Cancel buttons.
vbYesNo 4 Display Yes and No buttons.
vbRetryCancel 5 Display Retry and Cancel buttons.
vbCritical 16 Display Critical Message icon.
vbQuestion 32 Display Warning Query icon.
vbExclamation 48 Display Warning Message icon.
vbInformation 64 Display Information Message icon.
vbDefaultButton1 0 First button is the default.
vbDefaultButton2 256 Second button is the default.
vbDefaultButton3 512 Third button is the default.
vbDefaultButton4 768 Fourth button is the default.
vbApplicationModal 0 Application modal. The user must respond to the message box before continuing work in the current application.
vbSystemModal 4096 System modal. On Win16 systems, all programs are suspended until the user responds to the message box. On Win32 systems, this constant provides a program modal message box that always remains on top of any other programs you may have running.
Table 7. Box Constants – Selected Button
Constant Value Description
vbOK 1 OK button was clicked.
vbCancel 2 Cancel button was clicked.
vbAbort 3 Abort button was clicked.
vbRetry 4 Retry button was clicked.
vbIgnore 5 Ignore button was clicked.
vbYes 6 Yes button was clicked.
vbNo 7 No button was clicked.
Table 8. String Constants
Constant Value Description
vbCr Chr(13) Carriage return
VbCrLf Chr(13) & Chr(10) Carriage return…linefeed combination
vbFormFeed Chr(12) Form feed; not useful in Microsoft Windows
vbLf Chr(10) Line feed
vbNewLine Chr(13) & Chr(10) or Chr(10) Platform-specific newline character; whatever is appropriate for the platform
vbNullChar Chr(0) Character having the value 0
vbNullString String having value 0 Not the same as a zero-length string (“”); used for calling external procedures
vbTab Chr(9) Horizontal tab
vbVerticalTab Chr(11) Vertical tab; not useful in Microsoft Windows
Table 9. Tristate Constants
Constant Value Description
vbUseDefault −2 Use default from computer’s regional settings.
vbTrue −1 TRUE
vbFalse 0 FALSE
Table 10. VarType Constants
Constant Value Description
vbEmpty 0 Uninitialized (default)
vbNull 1 Contains no valid data
vbInteger 2 Integer subtype
vbLong 3 Long subtype
vbSingle 4 Single subtype
vbDouble 5 Double subtype
vbCurrency 6 Currency subtype
vbDate 7 Date subtype
vbString 8 String subtype
vbObject 9 Object
vbError 10 Error subtype
vbBoolean 11 Boolean subtype
vbVariant 12 Variant (used only for arrays of variants)
vbDataObject 13 Data access object
vbDecimal 14 Decimal subtype
vbByte 17 Byte subtype
vbArray 8192 Array

Constants