Creating & Using Tabs tutorial

[Eric Chatonet]

Hi Judy,

Let me tell you very friendly that I do'nt agree your position.
Beginners are surely as clever as you and me put together ;-)
Only they don't already know... And have to learn.

I think that it 's always better for them to take the right way without 
waiting.
Here, using the menuPick message (1 line handler versus 12 lines: Rev 
is sometimes verbose, sometimes so simple...) is the right way.
Adding some good explanations about parameters would complete the job.

I'm thinking of such a tutorial: How to pass parameters (handlers) and 
arguments (functions) by reference or not...
If I get the time and if some of you tell me that they would be 
interested despite my bad english  :-)

Best regards,

Le 14 avr. 05, à 09:21, Judy Perry a écrit :

> 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


Amicalement,

Eric Chatonet.
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