On 31/5/00 4:17 am, Steven Tripp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am creating a small database about kinds of wood.
>
> Each kind of wood will be on one card of a stack.
>
> What are the pros and cons of representing the properties of the wood
> (name, color, hardness, grain, etc) as custom properties of a card or
> group
>
> or
>
> just throwing them into a fld or flds?
>
> Later I will extract some of the woods using properties as criteria.
Do you want to display the information, or store it and use it in scripts?
A good rule of thumb is: if display the info, use fields. Otherwise, use
custom properties: they don't get displayed on screen so don't have any
redrawing overhead or font information.
Regards,
Kevin
> Steven Tripp
> University of Aizu
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