Rodrigo, My preferred solution would be a database extra like Valentina (http://www.paradigmasoft.com/product/v4md.html) to store all the text and populate your internal members. This text could then easily be changed by content people (without touching the Director application) and searched with simple SQL queries. The upside on this is that it keeps the content separate from the application (a big plus) and is incredibly fast for searching large amounts of data. The downside, of course, is that you must have some database and SQL knowledge (a good thing to have as a programmer anyway).
If you think the learning curve is too steep, I've also seen nice things done with the TextCruncher Xtra. The link is: http://www.updatestage.com/xtras/textcruncher.html. This won't have the learning curve that doing DB programming will, but gaining the additional skillsets of relational databases and SQL are nice for a resume. HTH Brian Romanko Lead Developer - Neo/SCI Corporation Member - Greater Rochester Macromedia User Group -----Original Message----- Hi list, I need to develop a CDRom that will have a lot of information, something about 400 pages of text. In this CDROM I'll need to have a search by keywords, title, subtitle and topics, that show all the chapters that matches the search. Since I had never done something like this before and with this amount of text, I'd like, if possible, you can give ideas, and some direction in how is the best way to implement this. If I need to use extras, lists or else. Thank's in advance Rodrigo Peres [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
