It sounds more like poor design from the get go; a well-designed OO toolkit should be easy to use if you are not the designer for it (N.b., this does not necessarily mean out of the box, but does require documentation reading...). What I've read with OO toolkits seems to indicate that a good strategy is to write everything once, throw that all away, and write from scratch again. Unless you sit down for a significant amount of time to figure out all class interactions, the resulting class is going to be mish-mash by the end of the run.

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