Hi Lars,
May be, you could consider another benefit of "one card" databases
where "records" are stored in a different file (an independant stack,
a tex file or some "real" database): this way allows to share
contents very easily (light files), have as many files as months,
years, classrooms, etc., switch between them within the same "shell"
stack (that can be well designed and heavy :-)
Just my 2 cents.
Le 26 mai 05 � 13:46, Lars Brehmer a �crit :
Thanks for the suggestions and tips! Maybe I misunderstand the
structure of Rev stacks, but first of all, my stacks work perfectly
and lightning fast - I just thought it was interesting that the
file sizes got so large, but now that they are slimmed way down and
i know how to keep it that way, I am an extremely happy camper.
Again, though, unless I misunderstand the structure of such stacks,
I really don't see much of a difference between your two (more
advanced) methods and my simple one. I mean if every single object
on the cards is in the background, doesn't this mean that there is
basically one card and all the hundreds and thousands of others are
nothing more than a collection of field contents and custom
properties? And isn't this comparable to a collection of database
records? To be honest, I shy away from using the database solution
for 2 reasons - one, I lack the knoweldge and skills to implement
it, and two, I see on the RevList people with far more skills than
I having all kinds of problems with databases every day, which
makes me even more hesitant. True, as I learned in the discussion
a week or so ago, custom properties are faster than fields (that's
why I changed as many as possible to custom props), and Signe
Marie's project apparenetly uses all custom properties and no
fields, as long as my thing functions as well and as fast as it
does, I think I'll stick to it just because it works and I
understand it. Thanks for the suggestions, though, I will
certainly examine them closely sometime down the road!
Best regards from Paris,
Eric Chatonet.
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