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On 12/17/11 11:40 AM, Knute Johnson wrote:
> Thanks Pete. That's obvious now but wasn't yesterday :-). You know I
> looked all over the net for examples of extending a generic class and
> found none. It could be that I didn't know what I was looking for really.

That happens.  Sometimes a little bootstrapping is needed before an 
effect web search can be made.

It also doesn't help that none of the search engines do very well with 
non-alphabetic components to search items (such as angle-brackets found 
in generic type declarations and usages).

Glad you were able to figure it out eventually.  :)