Breaking Subclass/Removing Object Group/Without loss of code for child form

Question

Hi all..
This is regarding Forms 10g (breaking inheritance)
I have a base form as well as client form.
The child form is having some properties as common to the base form. so child form is having sub class(inheritance) from the base class with the help of Object Group. This is the exiting setup
Now, client wants the same information as child form with out link with base form.
i.e., they want to remove the Object Group with out distrubing the child form.
Finally, they want the child form as independant from base form. i.e., child form should not have inheritance from the base form and at the same time they don't want to loss of any code to the child form.
There are 1000's of forms like that are need to re-work.
Is there any tool/script available to do this process of work automatically.
Please provide the necessary deatils and help me regarding this.
Regards
Madhava

Answer 1

You CAN add new items to the subclassed block or change triggers code or even add new triggers. Form Builder won't let you create items in-between existing subclassed items or triggers. So if you need to create a new item, create at the end of subclassed item or trigger...
You can not DELETE items of subclassed block or the block itself if it is subclassed. But you can remove the subclassed object from your child module --- by removing class info from the object group in child module --- but it will also remove all the subclassed child objects.
If you delete or change anything in master object, it will directly affect the subclassed object and you can see the change immediatly in the child modules.
When you drag the master object to child, it asks you if you need to subclass or copy, selecting copy will create a separate copy which you can play with in the child module.
And below is brief help on the matter:
If you don't want all the objects in the subclassed object group, then you might consider either subclassing the desired objects individually, or creating an object group which contains only the desired objects.
Edited by: Zaafran Ahmed on Oct 13, 2010 12:41 PM