Local Const String Assignments

Local Const Strings

Local string constants can be optionally relocated to resource files by converting them to standard strings that are initialized from a resource file. String constants are converted to standard variable length strings because it is not possible to directly assign a resource string to a constant.

For example, this will not work:

Const LOCAL_STRING = LoadResString(101) 'This will generate an error!

Example of a local string being converted to a standard string.

Original Source Code Before String Extraction
Option Explicit

Private Sub Form_Load()
  Const MY_STRING = "Welcome to my application."
 
  MsgBox MY_STRING
End Sub


Modified Source Code After String Extraction
Option Explicit

Private Sub Form_Load()
  Dim MY_STRING As String
  MY_STRING = LoadResString(S173_Welcome_to_my_appl)
 
  MsgBox MY_STRING
End Sub

(Note that the Const string assignment has been replaced by a standard string declaration and is initialized by a LoadResString operation. In addition, this string is no longer a read-only constant, it is a dynamic string that could inadvertently be modified by your code in the future.)

Global Const strings are handled differently.