>Hi,
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>What is a good practice when a form is based on another form, as far as where to place the dodefault() in the child form?
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>My feeling is that it should be at the top of the child form method. For example.
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>Say a base form is mybaseform (in MyBaseForms.vcx). And it in the INIT method of this form there is a code.
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>Then you create a new form MyChildForm based on the MyBaseForm. And it has some code in the INIT() method too. I think that in the child form INIT method the sequence should be as follows:
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>*-- Init method of child form
>dodefault()  && call the code in the parent INIT method
>*-- put the code specific to the child form INIT method
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>Does the above make sense or there is/are issue(s)?

Yes, that's the right idea. Some comments:

1. You're avoiding the rookie/too little coffee mistake of forgetting to call DODEFAULT() at all, when you actually need the parent class code ;)

2. If your method takes parameters, remember to pass them in DODEFAULT()

3. Exactly where you place DODEFAULT() depends entirely on your code requirements. In some frameworks you see code like this:

* Child form .Init()

LPARAMETERS tuParm1, tuParm2, ...

=This.BeforeInit( tuParm1, tuParm2, ... )

=DODEFAULT( tuParm1, tuParm2, ... )

=This.AfterInit( tuParm1, tuParm2, ... )

This gives a place to put code you'd like to run before or after a given method's default code, without having to override parent code or worry about exactly where to place DODEFAULT().