Slightly OT: Porting from PHP to RealBasic (Design issues)

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Slightly OT: Porting from PHP to RealBasic (Design issues)

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Hi all,

I've been writing an app in php/mysql for a good year now in part time spurts. It's been fun, but I am now in the process of porting it to RealBasic (that's another forum thread in itself :)).

The question is on the design side of things (visual design) as you see, in PHP, I've been able to create all these individual files, that all link to each other, each one drawing the content to the screen via HTML.

Now I am in RealBasic, I all of a sudden have this ... one window. And I have about 50 PHP scripts that make up my app (and each one with its own HTML output) that I now need to corral into this ONE window!

How does one go about that?! I've tried using TabPanels and things like that, but they are just not keeping up and are a pain to navigate around. I also don't want 50 windows popping up all over the place either.

So how can I do it? How can I have, say, a menu (for examples sake) that when clicked, clears the window contents and re-draws it with its own content? That's what I'm used to, and if that's not the way to go about it in this new world of RealBasic / .EXE app making :) then how should I ?

All responses would be SO greatly appreciated! :)

Rob
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