On 18/6/00 11:40 pm, Bruce Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is it that there is nothing for MetaCard like the "Reports" XCMD's? I have
> been using them for so long that I have forgotten what HyperCard was like
> without them? Could "Reports" be used with MetaCard.
You can do reports using the scripting language (using such features as
print into rect), and there is a freeware stack on the MetaCard ftp site
ftp://ftp.metacard.com/MetaCard/mcrg.mc that may help with this (though its
not as easy to use as HC's report support).
> Would there there be danger to my data in large stacks? Would there be an
> undue speed hit?
Becase (as already mentioned) the entire stack gets loaded into memory, you
could expect the stack to take longer to load. But access should be fast
enough. You might find that you could break your database up into multiple
stacks, for example one for each letter of the alphabet, and set them to be
deleted from memory on close.
Regards,
Kevin
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