Richard Gaskin wrote: Data storage and display is such a broad topic - can you share some Specifics of what you have thus far? And if the data is being stored in a stack file, why ISAM over something Like delimited chunks in custom props? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------- I slapped( and this is the correct term) this together for myself 4-5 years ago to take up a hobby I cultivated when I was a teenager, many moons ago. In effect it is a Writers Workbench.
Like any good change agent I could immediately see changes that would make it better. One of the main features is a graphic plot/story line screen that fake-scrolled all cards that had been developed by the writer in a certain sequence. That sequence was numeric and became the index. The index also held the card name which used LC's lightening fast access to pulled the card up as another window, so that it might be worked on. This index is also used in another part of the system to once again, pull up any card to be edited by the writer. I originally used a custom property to hold this index and loaded it into the engine each time I started up the application. Now I want to hold this index as an ISAM stack in the stack-file. Much like an index table developed from a many-many relationship. What triggered this whole rewrite was two-fold: 1. Each stack was a standalone stack that, if needed a change, meant I had to patch the working stack and transfer all data in each of the cards to the amended new(?) stack. 2. Now this is the esoteric reason. I was looking at FM Pro, Access, And MS DBMS and felt I could see similarities between these tables and and a stack file. So I'm looking into (hopefully) expanding the capabilities of this concept into something useful for myself, if no one else. I hope this doesn't muddy the waters Richard. Thanks for your interest. Cal _______________________________________________ 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
