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A New Class Manager: Ideas Needed
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12/10/1997 12:50:23
 
 
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12/10/1997 12:11:34
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Classes - VCX
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00054050
Message ID:
00054233
Views:
33
>>After becoming thoroughly frustrated with VFP's class browser, I've decided
>>to write a better class browser. The project is still in the planning
>>stage, so if you have any ideas on functionality you've always wanted to
>>have in the class browser let me know and I'll do my best to incorporate
>>them.
>>
>>The goal of this project is to build a better, more robust class _manager_
>>with the functionality that advanced users often need.
>
>I've always lacked the ability to change parents of my classes - it is,
>the ParentClass property was welded read_only forever. What if I wanted
>an intermediate class - I could subclass the parent, and Use
>The_bloody.vcx, find my child class and hand-code the intermediate
>parent name. Now... a class browser capable of this might report some
>compatibility issues, like all the three classes being of the same base
>class, which of the classes has some non-default method code etc.
>
>Impossible?
>
>(the last word was used just to raise your spirits and provide some
>motivation :)


The class browser is extendable...meaning you can add your own features
to it. The book VFP 3.0 Unleashed has a chapter that describes how to do it.
Craig Berntson
MCSD, Microsoft .Net MVP, Grape City Community Influencer
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