How to Save Your Design Efforts

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When you have finished designing a particular class, you should save your work. If you save your work as a class, all its subclasses are also affected by your changes. If you save your work as a subclass, a new subclass is created for the class you have been editing.

NOTE: The first time that you save a class in the Windows Designer, it may take quite a while. The reason is that numerous records have to be inserted into the ESI tables.

To save your design efforts as a class:

1.Make sure that the class you want to save is in the active design view.
2.From the menu bar, choose File, Save, or press Ctrl+A.

To save your design efforts as a subclass:

1.Make sure that the class you want to save is in the active design view.
2.From the menu bar, choose File, Save As.
3.The Save As dialog appears.
4.In the Name field, type a name for the (new) subclass.
NOTE: The names of classes must be unique throughout the Windows Designer catalog. You cannot even have a window and a dialog with the same name.
5.Click OK.