Hi Peter, You might consider taking a look at the SQLite Full Text Search table functionality. It's easy to set up, harder to learn hot to retrieve stuff correctly. But it is lightning fast. Pete lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Peter Bogdanoff <bogdan...@me.com> wrote: > Colin, > > Thanks. It is a reference work. However I'm allowing a string search which > could be several words or parts of words. But I suppose an index could > handle that. > > Peter > > On Dec 18, 2012, at 7:03 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: > > > If it's a reference book you could pre index all of the words, then have > a find field that knows the list of words used in each page. You could > quickly know which cards contain any given word (using offset), and could > then go to those cards to do a local find, to highlight the word. > > _______________________________________________ > > use-livecode mailing list > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
