Re: living and learning (Re: RunRev vs RealBasic (Richard Gaskin))

2005-01-22 Thread Geoff Canyon
On Jan 19, 2005, at 12:05 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: It's really just a matter of style, for instance, I *never* use the card method for this. I only use multiple card stacks in a couple places: 1) Wizards 2) I many times use the 2nd card in a stack to store all the icons for the first card. Thi

Re: living and learning (Re: RunRev vs RealBasic (Richard Gaskin))

2005-01-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dan Shafer wrote: On Jan 19, 2005, at 12:34 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: What got me started using groups instead of cards was referencing objects in scripts: While designing WebMerge 2.0 I kept moving controls from one tab to another until I got myself clear on what the program's flow should be.

Re: living and learning (Re: RunRev vs RealBasic (Richard Gaskin))

2005-01-19 Thread Dan Shafer
On Jan 19, 2005, at 12:34 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: What got me started using groups instead of cards was referencing objects in scripts: While designing WebMerge 2.0 I kept moving controls from one tab to another until I got myself clear on what the program's flow should be. During those chan

Re: living and learning (Re: RunRev vs RealBasic (Richard Gaskin))

2005-01-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dan Shafer wrote: > On Jan 19, 2005, at 7:37 AM, Geoff Canyon wrote: >> Note that the multi-card solution for tabs can still be used even if >> only a part of the window needs to change, as long as there is only >> one. You can group everything else (perhaps along with the tab panel >> itself) and

Re: living and learning (Re: RunRev vs RealBasic (Richard Gaskin))

2005-01-19 Thread Chipp Walters
It's really just a matter of style, for instance, I *never* use the card method for this. I only use multiple card stacks in a couple places: 1) Wizards 2) I many times use the 2nd card in a stack to store all the icons for the first card. This goes along with the concept of keeping the data an

Re: living and learning (Re: RunRev vs RealBasic (Richard Gaskin))

2005-01-19 Thread Dan Shafer
Geoff Good point. I have a mixture of the two types of needs, but when I can, I now use the card method as it is much more flexible and easier to code. Dan On Jan 19, 2005, at 7:37 AM, Geoff Canyon wrote: On Jan 17, 2005, at 12:12 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: On another app, though I *had* to use t

Re: living and learning (Re: RunRev vs RealBasic (Richard Gaskin))

2005-01-19 Thread Geoff Canyon
On Jan 17, 2005, at 12:12 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: On another app, though I *had* to use the hide/show groups method because only part of a window (card) changes in response to the users selections. Note that the multi-card solution for tabs can still be used even if only a part of the window needs

Re: living and learning (Re: RunRev vs RealBasic (Richard Gaskin))

2005-01-17 Thread Dan Shafer
The loud noise you just heard was the sound of my open hand smiting my forehead. This would have made one of my apps SO much simpler. In fact, I'm actually tempted to go rewrite the darned thing using separate cards and this technique. The client just asked for some significant changes and I s

Re: living and learning (Re: RunRev vs RealBasic (Richard Gaskin))

2005-01-17 Thread Ken Ray
On 1/17/05 12:25 PM, "Andre Garzia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 15, 2005, at 10:12 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> You have two basic ways to work with tabs in Rev: putting the tab in a >> shared group and moving between cards in response to the menuPick >> message, or responding to tha

living and learning (Re: RunRev vs RealBasic (Richard Gaskin))

2005-01-17 Thread Andre Garzia
On Jan 15, 2005, at 10:12 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: You have two basic ways to work with tabs in Rev: putting the tab in a shared group and moving between cards in response to the menuPick message, or responding to that message by hiding and showing groups. Damn! :-) I never tought of sharing a