Question

I’m using VB 6.0 and it gives me:

Compile Error:

Can’t Find Project or Library

in this sub:

Private Sub MDITimer_Timer()
    Dim textStr As String
    textStr = Format(Now, "dd-mm-yyyy hh:mm:ss")
    StatusBar.Panels(1).Text = textStr
End Sub

I made it like this and the error still was in the Format function (so it is not a StatusBar problem).

Can you tell me what is the Reference that we have to add to use the Format function? Or if a Reference is not needed, what do we have to do to make this work?

Answer 1

You probably overloaded Format() with a declaration of the same name. Have you tried calling VBA.Format() instead?

You should also use Format$() to avoid the unnecessary overhead of working with the Variant result Format() returns.