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Guidelines for Creating Property Classes

When you work with property classes, consider these guidelines:

Often, you will want to remove some properties so that the class definition contains only properties that objects you base on the class will actually inherit.

For example, you might create a property class from the definition of an existing text item so you could apply the same font and height characteristics to other text items. However, the new property class would also contain the X Position and Y Position properties. Since these properties define display coordinates that would almost always need to be overridden for each text item you base on the class, you might want to remove them from the class definition.

When you base an object on a property class, the properties of that object are updated as follows:

Property classes are similar to named visual attributes, but there are important differences you should be aware of:


Creating a property class