>The button can't inherit form code. I think it's telling you that the button is a member of the form container.
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>VFP doesn't support multiple inheritance (thank goodness)
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>>I'm looking at and trying to understand someone else's code.
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>>The situation:
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>>- An SCX form based on a form class frmAllBase
>>- On that SCX form there's a Command Button (cmdXLS), based on a hierarchy of command button classes
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>>Most of cmdXLS's methods inherit from one of its parent command button classes (as expected). But some of them appear to inherit from frmAllBase (see attached image).
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>>frmAllBase is a Form class (with its own inheritance hierarchy) and is no way based on any of cmdXLS's parent command button classes.
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>>Can anyone explain what's going on? Is this multiple inheritance of some kind, and if so how was it set up?

Yes, that's correct - see my reply to Charlie. I was a bit thrown by how the Properties window reports inheritance for methods.