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### Declaring Public Methods

All the methods of a class are by default private methods and cannot be accessed by the application programmer. If you want to make a method public, you can include its name in the `-method` section of the class declaration. In our TixArrowButton example, we have declared that the methods `flash`, `invert` and `invoke` are public methods and they can be accessed by the application programmer. All other methods of the TixArrowButton class will be private. Usually, the names of private methods start with a capital letter with individual words capitalized. The names of public methods start with a lowercase letter.