Mel Patrick wrote:

>You should write for Sun. Your example was clear and actually made sense.
>I've re-read theirs several times and well...I think they want to sell
>books or something.

Good.  I'm glad I could explain it in such as way as to get the point 
across.  :-)

>Is one goal or method to deal with more record type structures and less
>single vars in OOP?

Well...not only less var duplication, but less method duplication.  So 
you end up with more specific code to the task you are undertaking - 
without all of the fluff.  The power of the benefits of OOP grows 
exponentialy as you apply them to real-world programming issues.

>And when you want to create an object, you start with all the "little"
>objects that the big one consists of? And sort of subclass as your rect did?

Correct.  And keep in mind that FB^3 will come with the Staz Class 
Library - a prebuilt set of classes for all kinds of things like 
scrolling lists, drag & drop, etc.  To change the behavior of our 
pre-defined classes, all you will have to do is subclass them.

Our classes will also be directly editable by the "visual editor" built 
into FB^3.  So subclassing will be a very simple thing to do.

>And thanks for taking the time to explain it. Least it made some sense...I
>could even envision how it would be used.

It really is a powerful concept.


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