Hi PL, The app is a catalogue where users can view pics of the products & click on them to order (amongst other things). Currently each product page (card) is kept in a single cd stack file and all the pages are copied into one stack at start up. I've now realized it'll be better to have collections of product pages (by brand) in fewer stacks with many cards. I also thought cross brand searching and movement between cds would be made easier by having all the cards present in the one open stack. Now I'm considering keeping each brand collection in its own stack (i.e. no copying of cds - not that I'm not immensely grateful for the effort everyone's put in and finding out the true nature of the 'start using' command :) And opening and searching each 'brand' stack only as required. My feeling is the latter will work just as well (without waiting for "Loading catalogues..." on openStack), or (as you point out) having to deal with a huge unwieldy stack, especially if I don't bother to encrypt the catalogue pages. All comments and suggestion most welcome. Thanks again everyone. Steve Denney
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 28 November 2006 2:22 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Copying many cds to a stack causes standalone to hang Steve, I don't know if this has been mentioned: Rev opens, manipulates, and saves stacks with a lot of cards slowly. We were updating one large stack that seemed to hang each time. It was a stack imported from HyperCard where the same update took about half an hour. The update consisted of pulling data from the old stack, card by card and field by field, and putting it into a new stack, card by card and field by field. Fortunately we were able to just let the update run overnight on a surplus computer. In Rev the update worked, it just took over 20 hours. Until it we were able to let it finish we always figured Rev had simply hung. Storing you data in a database with a single card front end, already suggested by others, will give you much more speed than storing it as cards in a stack. PL ________________________________________________________________________ Check out the new AOL. Most comprehensive set of free safety and security tools, free access to millions of high-quality videos from across the web, free AOL Mail and more. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
