Need help about variables

Firstly I'm new to vb6 and I'm using it in a 'o' level project.
I would like that the new password i entered is save permanently because once i close the form the password re-becomes: Bringback , again.
Hope you understand.
The code is in the attachement.

You would need to save the password either to a file, a database or the registry.
You would also need to read this password from whichever source you are using at startup.

Is there a way to include it in the form itself by the use of codes?

Nope, unless you want to hardcode your passwords - which is not ( absolutely ot ) a good idea, plus, you want differing passwords, so the best option would be to follow DataMiser's advice.

OK Thanks everybody.

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Firstly I'm new to vb6 and I'm using it in a 'o' level project.
I would like that the new password i entered is save permanently because once i close the form the password re-becomes: Bringback , again.
Hope you understand.
The code is in the attachement.

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this might be a Great help for you .Just write the password in the tag property of form.you can change the password store in tag.according to your need.

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Option Explicit

Public LoginSucceeded As Boolean

Private Sub cmdCancel_Click()
    LoginSucceeded = False
    Me.Hide
End Sub

Private Sub cmdOK_Click()
    'check for correct password
    If txtPassword = frmLogin.Tag Then
        'place code to here to pass the
        'success to the calling sub
        'setting a global var is the easiest
        LoginSucceeded = True
        FrmDataentry.Show 'Whatever you want after login!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
        Me.Hide
    Else
        MsgBox "Invalid Password, try again!", , "Login"
        txtPassword.SetFocus
        SendKeys "{Home}+{End}"
    End If
End Sub

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That won't help. Like everything else in the program it will reset when the program is started again. You must use a method of saving the data for it to persist the next time you run the program.

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Originally Posted by firoz.raj

this might be a Great help for you .Just write the password in the tag property of form.you can change the password store in tag.according to your need.

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Dont follow this 'great help'. :rolleyes: When you start the program the tag property is always empty. So this will not work in no case. Only if you have a built in password which is hardcoded that way.Anyone using an editor is able to read out that password by simple looking into the exe file then.
What you can do is writing to registry and reading from registry
Writing to registry is done like

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Call SaveSetting(app.EXEName , "Setup", "Password", txtPassword.Text)

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txtPassword is the textbox where you are setting your password, for example you may have a form which allows you to store different varables used for the program and there you decide to choose a Password for that person.
To retrieve that data you can use the following code

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Dim sPassword as string
sPassword = GetSetting(app.EXEName , "Setup", "Password","")

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This you may compare with the users input and then decide if he is allowed for using your program

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Originally Posted by Lightsmage

Is there a way to include it in the form itself by the use of codes?

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Yes, as I said before you must save it to a file, a database or a registry. The EXE that will be generated by your program is a file and you can save data to it though I would not suggest this for a beginer it is possible.

That said you still need to write code to save the new password to a file and you will need to write code to read the password at program startup. Otherwise the password will always revert to whatever it was set to the first time you ran the program each time you start the exe.