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Issue 2.5

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Custom Classes

Creating a statictext subclass

Issue: 2.5 (May/June 2004)
Author: Thomas J. Cunningham
Author Bio: Thomas is a hobbyist programmer who enjoys sharing the RB loving with others. He makes his home in the 50th State on the island of Maui.
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Welcome back, newbies! For this month's column I would like to discuss what I consider to be one of the first steps toward becoming an intermediate REALbasic user -- creating and using custom classes. This involves, more often than not, subclassing existing classes.

Classes

First, so we're all on the same page, let's briefly define what it means to be a class. A class is a blueprint, or prototype, that defines the variables and the methods common to all objects of a certain kind.

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