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Why must we use SET CLASSLIB????
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05/06/2002 17:44:03
Mike Yearwood
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
 
 
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00664748
Message ID:
00665172
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Hi Fred

So if I make a little PRG with a DEFINE CLASS command in it and I include that PRG in my project, will the class be available for subclassing, or must I DO .PRG first?

>>Hi Matt
>>
>>A better question might be, why do we not have an alternative to classlibs?
>>
>>If I built a classlib with 3 classes, I cannot share just one class with you. I have to send you all three. If the 2 classes you didn't need were based on other classes, you'd end up with a ton of extra stuff.
>>
>>This is not unlike the SET PROCEDURE to huge.prg. If huge.prg has tons of procedures in it, I can't easily share one of them with you, without cutting and pasting.
>>
>>We've always had the option of creating individual .prgs with one procedure/function in each vs the lots of procedures/functions per prg. If I create little prgs for each function, I don't have to SET PROCEDURE to use them in an APP or EXE or anytime.
>
>So use DEFINE CLASS for all of your classes, and you can have it the same way.
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