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
> 

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