[noob again]objects and properties and messages

[Stephen Barncard]

Uh oh, Noobs's at the 'frustration phase' with a taste of righteous 
indignation just preceding the 'aha' phase.

Don't give up. It's not that hard, really. Remember what Dan said 
when he talked bout the DEPTH of this platform -- 10x the features of 
hypercard.

There are a lot of properties to deal with, but they're all there, 
including tabstops in the properties palette for the field.

But you also mentioned a Tab panel - a completely different thing. 
This is quite simple - as I remember there are at least 2 example 
stacks among us here that demonstrate tab panels with at least as 
many ways to implement.

And Groups - are quite useful and innovative, either as a groups or 
backgrounds.

And you don't have to buy the enterprise version unless you really 
need to develop on each platform. The studio edition is quite useful, 
and doesn't cost a grand.

You should stick around. You won't find a better bunch of guys to 
help anywhere. We all went through this phase at one time or another.

sqb

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>I mean c'mon!  I wrote HyperGuard, the XCMD that squashed the Dukakis
>trojan, in a single stinking afternoon, and I can't get a tab whatever
>to function as I expect or complete a simple text parser?  I know
>there's a learning curve, but this is getting silly.  After looking at
>the options, I'm clearly in the Pro tool realm, but I'm not going to
>plink down $1,000 for the pro tool if this is where things are going.
>I think I've been pretty patient to this point but the last four days
>have been increasingly annoying.
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