Personally, I'm a big fan of separating code and data so always use external storage for the data in my applications, be it a flat file or a database. However, that entails learning how to access files efficiently and/or learning SQL so I can see that folks would prefer to keep the data within Livecode.
For applications which are purely personal in nature, I think that's fine. But I would guess if you are writing an application for commercial use, customers would not be happy about their data being stored in a proprietary format which they cannot access other than through Livecode. Pete lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 3:41 AM, Francis Nugent Dixon <effe...@wanadoo.fr>wrote: > Hi from Beautiful Brittany, > > Kay C. Lan wrote : > > >> I haven't written a Stack with multiple Cards in quite a while. Stacks > and > >> SubStacks, yes. When was the last time anyone here created a Stack full > of > >> Cards? > > > > I came from Hypercard, and have been creating data bases for multiple > reasons for 20 years +. I dig into genealogy quite a lot, and have > many stacks containing multiple cards. My biggest stack does distance > calculation between cities in the world, and has 5000 cards, one for each > city. I certainly could merge all the data into one field and gain some > execution time, but it works fine like it is. As I write songs, I also have > built a song catalogue containing lyrics, MP3 files and video clips, and > even > Sacem data, Royalties, etc. for nearly 1000 songs, written withmy composer > colleague. > I reckon I create a multiple card stack about once a week, sometimes used > once only, for selecting, modifying and merging data from the internet > sites. > Any excuse is good for spending a day or so in building a stack and > furiously > scripting, mostly for pleasure, just to produce a list of compiled data > from > many sources.I even have model stacks and a graveyard of scripts which I > use > to build multiple card stacks in record time. > > I never got around to using arrays, or any method fur putting data into > more > compact forms on single cards. Too lazy to learn, I guess ! > > -Francis > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
