The hours I've spent creating several layouts almost exactly the same except for a changing tab control and a few fields. Wouldn't it be great if you could simply drop a tab control onto a layout - add tabs to it - and tell it what layout should be displayed within the control for each tab! There could even be sciptable events like there is in delphi's TTabControl for OnChanging and OnChanged - thatis when the user is changing tabs or has changed.

Actually the events would go a long way in other places in FM too - having "specify button" simply isn't enough. OnEnter, OnExit and OnChange events would enable you to fire a script as the user enters a field textbox, exits it, or changes the field contents!

Most of all, I wish the plugin SDK came with a Delphi / Pascal translation!

Do you mean like

15 Minute Tabs - The quickest way to make a tabbed interface as presented by Matt Petrowsky

http://www.filemakermagazine.com/

The presentation is second to last on the page.

HTH

Lee