correction: no that was wrong info… restarted the panel,
and my latest new uiTabs was right up front.
so i’ve had to set the property pane entry:
‘is component visible’ to disabled,
and now it seems to start up properly again.
still not quite right. mystery continues…
edit: now trying this:
i now have BOTH setVisible and setProperty(componentVisibility)
setting that component visible in the startup method.
working so far. (still suggests i’m doing it wrong. maybe all
should be ‘nil’-ed on startup?)