> I am wanting to modify an applicaiton of mine so that
> it will have different screens that will be selected
> via a category-like pulldown menu. What I am
> wondering if I should have separate forms for each or
> should I just have one form with a ton of objects that
> have hidden or viewed when on the appropriate form. I
> guess that this is like a tabbed dialog box. I
> realize that if I have different forms that there will
> be a flicker when "pages" are switched while the other
> method will be cleaner to the user but a bear to
> debug.
Definately go with multiple forms. You'll be much less frustrated. The
flicker isn't very bad at all -- look at the Preferences program on the
Palm. It uses not only a different form for each page, it has a
different application for each.
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