>I have a rather weird layout - three layers of classes, and in the top layer there's a base form class, and a class derived from that one, with many of the methods of its own. Then there's a middle layer which is intended for company-level modifications, and it inherits from the top layer, but is currently empty, and then there's a local layer which inherits from the middle layer and it's intended to keep app-specific variations, if any. Needless to say that in the early stages the mid- and local layer are mostly empty (no code, most of PEM is at default).
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>I instantiate a form off the local layer, and guess what - it runs the .init of the eldest class in the hieararchy. I'd have to stuff lots of dodefault()s upstream to make it behave.
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>Using VFP5.0a - any hints to any potential bugs which may cause this, and workarounds, if any, are welcome.
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>TIA
Hi Dragan,
I may be wrong, but this sounds very much like something Drew Speedie wrote about in FoxPro Advisor several months back. Right now, I don't have access to my back issues, but you can probably find the issue at the Advisor site. The article was call something like "The Dangers of Composite Classes".
George
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