Name: rlT66838 Date: 07/15/97


I am writing a Extended Button class which supports image, tooltip and so on.

What I need to do is to set the size of the button and some of
its properties like foreground color, font and so on in my derived class.
Eventhough my class extends Button class of awt I am not directly
allowed to access these variables from my Extended Button class
because these variables have default access 'package'.
I am forced to call one of the setXXX functions to set these values.
Why all these attributes of a class are made "package" instead of
"protected".
Why the basic attributes which define, in this case,
the appearance of a class are not directly accessible
to the derived classes.

Ragu.


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