Hi Till,
I had to switch from Mac to Win so MC seemed to me the only way - VB was
awful - to use my HC-apps.
I always found that updating clientsStacks is an awful exportImport-thing
now I split my apps in data- and UI-stacks.
(that is not only a problem of HC or MC; look at filemaker and others)
Update is easy - you just deliver a new UI-stack
if you make changes in the data-stack you probably just have to create a new
bg fld or so but you need not to update scripts - that would be possible (MC
could do it very well) but your delivered stacks fall back to
starteKit-level and so there is that 10-line-script-limit!
Regards,
Ernst
> From: Till <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: HyperCard price etc
> Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 16:53:55 +0200
> does everyone agree with the concept of storing data externally. For me it
seems a
> step behind the concept of MetaCard/HyperCard: how do you "find" text etc.
in your
> stacks. It seems to me that you have to work with the offset function and
do it all
> yourself? Do you work with database access or with text files? Could you
send me an
> example offlist to show the technique?
>
> Thanks
> Till
>
> Simon Lord wrote:
> > As for storing files
> > externally, I'm all over that and a huge fan of it. I never save
> > anything inside a stack except for script and MC elements like flds
> > and btns where it is necessary. I spent many hours converting SC to
> > act the very same way years ago. It allowed my clients to have
> > external access to the content and provided a means for me *not* to
> > have to be there to update the stacks for them (that was a huge pain).
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