I often find myself in this situation where I have a base class that does a lot of graphics. There are, for example, three strings that are positioned top, middle, bottom of an element. Like a scale or something. Now for every type of scale I make a new class that inherits the base class and simple sets the three strings and everything is fine. But often there is ONE single case, where I need four strings.
Sure, I could just override the method and recalculate for four, BUT if the calculations are based on a lot of offsets etc I would always have to take a look at how the base class does it in the first place and then copy-paste the entire calculation and do it for one more string. This means that every time the base calculation changes, I would need to copy-paste again etc.
On the other hand I could write the base class so super flexible that every tiny step can be overridden and subclasses can do everything they want with ease. But this requires way more work on the base class for ONE special case out of 20.
So either it's more workload in the beginning or the risk of missing a copy paste.
Often I don't even know what will come and you can't write a baseclass that is all-flexible and no one has the time to do so. So overriding and copy-pasting seems the best way to do so, but it still seems way too risky.
How should I approach this? I am looking for solutions that are practical, not a schoolbook approach that is too time consuming in a real work life.
(I mainly work with Java)
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