Greetings Chuck,
Is there such a thing of "virtual tables"?  It is definitely worth
considering.

Thank you,

Daniel Beatty
Computer Scientist, Detonation Sciences Branch
Code 474300D
2400 E. Pilot Plant Rd. M/S 1109
China Lake, CA 93555
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On 11/24/10 10:52 AM, "Chuck Hill" <ch...@global-village.net> wrote:

> 
> On Nov 24, 2010, at 10:39 AM, Dan Beatty wrote:
> 
>> Greetings all,
>> I agree with Farrukh, that would be a handy prototype.  The other idea I had
>> was to literally build a set of tables for a framework ³SomeOnesDictionary²
>> where the super-class could be linked to any other object.
> 
> Perhaps what you want is our "virtual tables" framework?  It implements a
> database in a handful of tables with KVC access, relationships, and calculated
> fields.
> 
> 
> Chuck
> 
> 
>>  Both are good notions, and like I said seem so simple that it would be shock
>> that it had not been thought of before.
>> 
>> V.r.
>> 
>> Daniel Beatty
>> Computer Scientist, Detonation Sciences Branch
>> Code 474300D
>> 2400 E. Pilot Plant Rd. M/S 1109
>> China Lake, CA 93555
>> daniel.bea...@navy.mil
>> (760)939-7097 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 11/24/10 10:26 AM, "Farrukh Ijaz" <farrukh.i...@fuegodigitalmedia.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On 2010-11-24, at 9:23 PM, Ramsey Gurley wrote:
>>> 
>>>> There's a mutable dictionary attribute in ERPrototypes. Works with
>>>> ERXMutableDictonary.
>>> 
>>> Interesting! Does that automatically handle the back-and-forth conversion?
>>> 
>>> Farrukh
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Ramsey
>>>> 
>>>> On Nov 24, 2010, at 1:13 PM, Dan Beatty wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Greetings Wizards,Dave, Chuck, ladies, and gentlemen,
>>>>>  Got a weird question for you.  Does Wonder have a framework for having
>>>>> the notion a ³plist² in the database itself.   The idea being that one
>>>>> would have an attribute that would basically be a plist dictionary (in and
>>>>> of itself)?   The idea seemed so simple, I find it hard to believe that it
>>>>> has not been conjured up before.  I am thinking that it would have a
>>>>> migration method similar to ERAttachment allowing any other table to
>>>>> reference such a dictionary, like ERDictionary or something.
>>>>>  
>>>>>  Any ideas?
>>>>>  
>>>>>  Daniel Beatty
>>>>>  Computer Scientist, Detonation Sciences Branch
>>>>>  Code 474300D
>>>>>  2400 E. Pilot Plant Rd. M/S 1109
>>>>>  China Lake, CA 93555
>>>>>  daniel.bea...@navy.mil <x-msg://227/daniel.bea...@navy.mil>
>>>>>  (760)939-7097
>>>>>  
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