Name
Protected Keyword
Description
Used to declare classes and their members.
When the Protected keyword is used to modify a
member declaration, the member being declared has direct access scope
to the class module in which the member is declared, as well as to
all derived classes in all projects. However, as far as object access
is concerned, the member is considered Private;
that is, it can only be accessed within the declaring class.
Declaring a class module as Protected limits all
of the class’ members to Protected access (or
stronger if the member has further specific access restrictions).
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