By David Harms

Summary: When some standard Clarion functionality doesn't meet your need, what do you do? First, you embed some code. Then, when you need that code elsewhere, you start thinking about how to avoid duplicating the embeds. As Dave Harms shows, often the easiest solution is to create a custom, derived ABC class, and tell the templates to use your class instead of the ABC original.

Please log on to read this subscriber-only article. If you do not have a subscription you can purchase one in the ClarionMag store.