Creating & Using Tabs tutorial

[Judy Perry]

Hi Sarah,

Thanks for taking a look !

I am not unaware that the code I used was both verbose and non-optimized.

Believe it or not, this was deliberate!  My rationale is this:

A complete newbie, non-programmer, could probably look at a series of
if-then-end ifs and understand what was going on such that s/he could
modify the script for a different usage.

A real programmer could likewise take a look at it and understand it while
going off muttering about what a complete idiot I am for doing it that
way.

OTOH, while a real programmer could look at the more optimized code with
its menuPick and pParameters and the like and understand it, I really
doubt that a complete newbie, non-programmer would do likewise.

I guess I should really rename my planned series 'Transcript for Dummies'
@;-)

Eric and Klaus and the others are doing nice things for the programming
crowd; I'm trying to do likewise for the DreamCard group who wants to do
something a little bit more exciting than the PowerPoint that they've been
told is all they ever need to know...

Judy

On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Sarah Reichelt wrote:

> Hi Judy,
>
> Good tutorial and the PDF is a neat touch and very well put together.
> However I suggest you have a look at the "menuPick" message which makes
> handling tabs much easier.
>
> When using one card per tab, here is the script I use:
>
> on menuPick pCardName
>    go to card pCardName
> end menuPick
>
> For tabs where you are hiding and showing groups, it is made easy by
> the fact that for tabbed buttons, the menuPick has 2 parameters: the
> tab just chosen and the tab previously chosen, so you cna use this:
>
> on menuPick pNewGroup, pOldGroup
>    hide group pOldGroup
>    show group pNewGroup
> end menuPick
>
> Cheers,
> Sarah
>
>
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