Eddies Electronics: Super Class BasePushButton

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I’m going through Eddies Electronics and all the buttons are based off of a super class called BasePushButton. I’ve searched for BasePushButton and can’t find it anywhere, not in docs or on web. If I just put a cancel button on the window its super is PushButton. So where did BasePushButton come from?

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You can find it in ‘User Interface’ folder -> ‘Controls’ folder -> BasePushButton

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Why doesn’t the ide find, find it?

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Turns out the find does find it. It is at the end of the list and is marked BasePushButton.Name

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That’s right, is the last one of the list.

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Thanks Alberto. Do you know of a video or article that illustrates why an app is built the way it is. In Eddies Electronics it seems that we created a super class based on pushbutton so that we could create a method to cope with a Linux issue. On the other hand we have OrdersDatabase being set up as a class again because it gives us a place to gather all our database methods. It would be helpful to find out the reason these choices are being made.

So far I’m getting the feeling that the more I understand classes the easier this will become.

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Here are several videos: http://developer.xojo.com/videos

There are others on Xojo’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/goxojo

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