>Unfortunately TxtBase is the class that ALL my txtBoxes are based on. Doing this would now make ALL txtBoxes
>a subclass of InGrid.
>
>Bill
Bill,

The diagram got screwed up, I am suggesting that InGrid and InGrid2 each need to be separate subclasses of txtBase and not Ingrid2 being a subclass of InGrid.

If you fiund yourslef wanting to skip a level in the inheritence tree, that indicates that the subclass you are working on is NOT in fact a subclass of its superclass but is a sibling class to that one, where both will have the same superclass (in this case making both InGrid and InGrid2 subclasses of txtBase)