>I am new to the VFP environment and I am learning by trial and error. I do recall hearing that creating custom base classes was key in decreasing your development time with VFP. Therefore, I am trying to create my own custom classes. However, when I create a class based on an existing class which already has code contained within it, this code is not carried over to the new class. Is there a way to get around this (other than cut and paste)? I know the code will need to be modified, but it would still take less time I believe to make these changes than to start from scratch. Thank you in advance.

Just to add what has already been said. You use the dodefault() method, but you can call it before or after you put your code in the current method. Of course, you don't enter anything if you aren't changing the behavior of the class.

In a textbox - txtmytextbox.click event
this.fontsize = 12
this.fontname = 'Times New Roman'
dodefault() && will call the parent objects default click behavior.
If you have code in the parent class that sets the fontname and size, it will override the above. However, if you placed the dodefault at the beginning of the code, it would be overwritten.