Hi

I am very new to class and OOP Programming.

Can any one clear some of my basic doubts.

1. I want to create a non-visual class. First of all is this the right situation to create a class or not pl. clarify that also.

In my project I am having 4 differnt forms which has grid on it. Now when I input some value on tenth colum of any row it will search a table for that value and display the name from that table.

Since I want to do this in all the 4 forms I thought class will be a good idea. Is it Ok ?


2. Now if yes the question is how to create a class. I am referring to a book "Special edition using visual FoxPro 6" by "QUe". It has explain how to create class by giving an example of one prg file which first shows how to call a class's function with some value which is what I want to do. But at the end part of prg file it shows the syntex as
DEFINE CLASS test as custom
FUNCTION testfunc (Parm1)
Parm1 = 10
ENDFUNC
ENDDEFINE

If this way I have to copy the class in all the form where I want to use the function then there is no point of using it. Isn't is ? Now after few pages it talks about using Visual Class Designer with the command CREATE CLASS and Press ENTER which shows a window for creating class. Till that it is ok. Now what ? Where to write the function and how to pass parameters to it ?

Pl. Help.

Thanks in Advance.

Regards
Ashish Patel