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Issue 2.1

FEATURE

The Extends and Assigns Keywords

Issue: 2.1 (August/September 2003)
Author: Charles Yeomans
Author Bio: Charles Yeomans pontificates about most things REALbasic from his computer in Lexington, Kentucky.
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REALbasic 5.1 introduced two new keywords, "Extends" and "Assigns," that allow developers to do wonderful things. In this article, we'll explore their use by way of examples, and also take a look at the benefits of their introduction for application design in REALbasic.

The Extends Keyword

The "Extends" keyword allows you to add new subroutines and functions to an existing class. It does this by telling the compiler to treat global methods as methods of the declared type of the first parameter. Some examples will make this clear.

Examples

As our first example, let's add a HexDump function to the MemoryBlock class.

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