The Dabo Designer now supports component classes that can be used in multiple forms, with full inheritance maintained. This allows you to not only re-use some useful components, but to have updates to those components automatically appear in the designs that use them.

Let's say you created a 'mover' control: one that moves items between two lists. This can be handy in lots of forms, so you save it as a class. Later on you need to create another form that needs a mover, so you add an instance of your mover class to this new design surface. It will simply work as expected. But now suppose that a few weeks later, after you've used this class in dozens of forms, you discover a bug in your mover code. No problem: just fix the bug in your class, and all the forms that use your mover are also fixed!

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