> What is the best way of building a cross-platform (Mac and PC)
keyword
> search facility for a CD-based catalogue developed with
> Director? Do I have
> to buy an Xtra? If so, can anybody recommend one?
Hi Paul,
While you could do keyword searches using only Lingo, for more a
search of any significance it would be quite slow. I would suggest
using an Xtra like TextCruncher from UpdateStage. TextCruncher does
lightning-fast searchs of text. You can use it in a Director projector
or in a Shockwave movie to perform a real-time fulltext search or even
create indices for an indexed search of very large amounts of text.
The latter seems particularly appropriate in your case. Here is a link
to an article in the UpdateStage archives that should help get you on
your way:
http://www.updatestage.com/previous/981201.html
There is even a drag and drop behavior in the current demo that does
the indexing and runtime search for you!
The current version of the TextCruncher Xtra is a commercial product
available
for sale through www.updateStage.com.
Price: $129.00
Platforms:32-bit Windows, Mac
Director versions supported: Director 6,7,8,8.5
Shockwave-safe, Shockwave auto-install
For more information, download a fully functional trial version or to
order TextCruncher go
here:
http://www.updatestage.com/xtras/textcruncher.html
I hope that this information was useful to you.
Cheers,
Al Hospers
UpdateStage
Marketing Associate
al<at>cambersoft<dot>com
http://www.updatestage.com
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