>> 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.
Unless you need to sort, mark, find or otherwise manipulate records in
which case store data in fields, even if hidden to reduce overhead as
mentioned.
/H
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