>Thank you, Jim. Can you explain the significance of the base class Shape, and why it has its own symbol wherever it is subclassed (as opposed to any other class being subclassed)?
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>Thanks, Randy

Randy,

That symbol is not the shape as I thought, it is the custom.

Every baseclass has an icon that represents it;

CommandButton looks like a button
TextBox looks like a textbox
Customer is the one you asked about
Shape is a square, rectanlge, and circle all white
Contained is a box
etc..