>>>>I have a container class in a VCX, where I added a combobox and a label to the container, and on the combobox I have added code to several of its methods. Now, is there any way I can extract that combobox out of the container, and make it a free-standing class in the vcx, so I can use it outside of the container?
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>>>>If I could do this, I would then delete the original combox from the container, and then add back an instance of the extracted one, which it the way I should have built the thing in the first place.
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>>>Copy combo to the clipboard, open a new form, put this combo there, then select and Save as a class.
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>>When I tried to copy, it says "Cannot copy objects because some are members of a parent class"
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>I meant copy from the container class when you open this class to modify. Is it what you have been trying?

Yep. I had the container class open from the VCX.