Yes, I realized early on that I have to treat cards like web forms, loading the data from a database of some sort as needed.
Bob S > On May 13, 2026, at 6:59 AM, Craig Newman via use-livecode > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have several HC stacks that are still in use in my business, and one of > them has several thousand cards. No issues at all navigating among them. LC > balks at about 2000. > > When I switched to LC I thought there was something wrong when I made stacks > with thousands of cards and navigation was so slow. I solved that by using a > single card and loading it with “each card’s” data as needed, that data > stored in custom properties. > > On another similar note, there is no 30K textEdit limit that HC was bound by, > which was a real pain. > > Anyway, you could do that as well. Substacks are meant to be used when each > stack layout itself is different, not as a substitute for having two cards. > > Craig > > > >> On May 13, 2026, at 8:18 AM, Brian Milby via use-livecode >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Interestingly, that is the direction that Create is going to… each stack is >> just a single card. >> >> Brian Milby >> [email protected] >> >>> On May 13, 2026, at 2:41 AM, jbv via use-livecode >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Finally, I found aworkaround: instead of a single stack with 2 cards, >>> now I hhave >>> - 1 main stack with 1 card >>> - 1 sub-stack of the same size with 1 card. >>> And instead of "go cd 2", I uuse >>> hide main stack >>> show substack >>> >>> With only 2 cards it's ok, but in a project with many cards and lots of >>> controls on each card, replacing multiple cards with multiple substacks, >>> I'm not sure... >>> >>> jbv >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> [email protected] >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
