Thank's everybody for the answers!! I'M already looking all the sources you suggested in order to find the best and if possible less complicate, since I'm programing in lingo just a few time.
Rodrigo on 11/15/01 3:05 PM, Irv Kalb at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 > -- [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!]
