>>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)?
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>Yes, that's the right idea. Some comments:
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>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 ;)
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>2. If your method takes parameters, remember to pass them in DODEFAULT()
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>3. Exactly where you place DODEFAULT() depends entirely on your code requirements. In some frameworks you see code like this:
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>* Child form .Init()
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>LPARAMETERS tuParm1, tuParm2, ...
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>=This.BeforeInit( tuParm1, tuParm2, ... )
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>=DODEFAULT( tuParm1, tuParm2, ... )
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>=This.AfterInit( tuParm1, tuParm2, ... )
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>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().

Thank you for your input. It all makes sense.