Claude,
if you only have some text and a pict for each card you might try to just
have one card and a few lists with the html and pict files to be loaded
(and where to be placed if necessary). this trick really makes things
cleaner if every card is very similar and youre going to be using a
cdrom. keeps stack size down, speeds navigation and loading and should be
the easiest on memory usage. used this for encyclopedia type projects
using hypercard and its relly slick and the fastest way to navigate
between cards.
cheers,
jeff
On 8/24/99 7:09 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>I am prepairing a stack of 600 cards ; the size of the cards is 800x600 ;
>each
>card has an image 640x480 in colour and a short text. The images are
>stored as
>jpeg out of the stack.
>
>This stack will be distributed on cd-rom in schools ; memory management is a
>concern because some computers in schools have only 8 or 16 MO RAM.
>
>What is the most efficient way to display the images :
>
>- only one image in a group, the rect and the filename of the image stored
>as a
>custom prop of the card and resetted in preopencard
>- one image in each card, the filename of the image stored as a custom
>prop of
>the card, loading the image on preopencard and setting the filename to
>empty on
>closecard
>- one image in each card, the filename of the image pointing on the actual
>image
>file
>
>In other words, does Metacard release automatically the space used in
>memory by
>an image in a closed card
>
>Regards, Claude
Jeffrey H. Reynolds, Ph.D.
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