When you build a window that inherits its definition—its style, events, functions, structures, variables, controls, and scripts—from an existing window, you save coding time. All you have to do is modify the inherited definition to meet the requirements of the current situation.
This section provides an overview of using inheritance in the Window painter. The issues concerning inheritance with windows are the same as the issues concerning inheritance with user objects and menus. They are described in more detail in Chapter 13, “Understanding Inheritance.”
