Moving Components to Associated Classes 

Use

You use this procedure to move attributes, methods and events of a class to an associated class.

The classes are associated in the defining class using an attribute with TYPE REF TO <Name_of_associated_class>.

Note that a conflict could occur if methods that you move to an associated class were already redefined in a subclass. In this case the subclass contains a syntax error.

Procedure

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       1.      Select the class.

       2.      Make sure you are in Change mode.

       3.      Choose Utilities ® Refactoring ® Refactoring Assistant.

       4.      Select the component to be moved and move it to the name of the associated class (in the Associations folder) using Drag & Drop.

       5.      Choose Save.

Result

The selected component is deleted from the original class and created in the associated class.

This function is especially useful for splitting a class. For more information, see Splitting Classes