I agree with everything Brian said here, but just offering another option - V12. I am currently working on an educational CD-Rom with lots of text. The text is stored in a V12 database and is easily searchable. Same idea, keeping the text separate from the code allows a "content expert" to work independently from the programmer.
http://www.integration.qc.ca/ Irv At 11:38 AM -0500 11/15/01, Brian Romanko wrote: >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 -- Lingo / Director / Shockwave development for all occasions. (Home-made Lingo cooked up fresh every day just for you.) [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!]
