From: RDAPres@NoRDASpamWorldWide.com   
      
   Hi Roy,   
      
   I don't like them mostly because they tend to cause containership issues   
   unless you are careful or add multiple instances of the tables to the   
   form. If I need a page I would rather just pull a complete new form. It   
   also simplifies the form, the code and debugging. It helps for support   
   ("what form title do you see?" OK, I know what you are looking at.) I   
   don't need any page navigation code. I don't have a whole lot of extra   
   stuff bubbling to the form. Even when I did use pages (pre notebooks) I   
   would stack them so you couldn't scroll from one to another, you could   
   only see one at a time, not half of 2.   
      
   I disagree about pop up forms causing confusion. When I pop up a form   
   either you are in a dialog and have to deal with it or you are in   
   another form that fills the pdox desktop and the form you cam from is   
   hidden (really hidden, not just covered) until you are done. So   
   navigation is quite simple. Not like what you describe. Even if one form   
   pops up another and that form pops up another there is no confusion in   
   my aps. You are dealing with the one you are in and can't co back until   
   you finish. And you will never see more than one full form and one   
   dialog or, at most one full form and 2 dialogs so if you find that   
   confusing time to go back to a pen and pad.   
      
   I also think folks are very used to the tabbed approach so it is simple   
   and easy for users to understand and maximizes screen real estate. I do   
   sometimes hide and show uios based on what the user is doing, the data   
   displayed, etc. That can make sure life simpler.   
      
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