>>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.
>>>
>>>The situation:
>>>
>>>- 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
>>>
>>>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).
>>>
>>>frmAllBase is a Form class (with its own inheritance hierarchy) and is no way based on any of cmdXLS's parent command button classes.
>>>
>>>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.


Drew Speedie wrote something once called XXDTHACK that is part of the VMP framework's tools. Quite handy for dealing with inhhertance and changing classes around. I imagine there is someone that put something together that's similar and free.