Better than tables, better than delimited lines?

[Richard Gaskin]

Thomas McGrath III wrote:
> Richard,
> 
> My first successful project doing the 3 criteria evaluation was in 
> SuperCard over seven years ago. Once I figured out 'a method' for the 
> eval part then I needed to store temporary lists of the evaluated lines 
> and do a lot of reseting of button/images based on the new lists. 
> Clicking one button would start the eval based upon what button it was 
> and the system would need to see that button as mykey1 in slot item 1 
> across multiple lines, then a second button click would only search 
> those found lines and produce a list based on those two criteria and 
> then a third button would do the same to produce a final list matching 
> all three in a 'live' sort of way as the user was pressing buttons. Then 
> if the user decided they wanted to back out of a sequence to the second 
> or first button I would keep the temp lists around for that. Oh yeah and 
> each button has three states (available to press, unavailable to press, 
> and a while being pressed state- mouseDown) which are driven by the info 
> in the database. The old system used 128 buttons but this new one is 
> only using 18 buttons so it will be a lot less cumbersome to deal with.

Have you considered using a list for that selection so you don't have to 
make so many buttons?

> I knew I could do this, but in SC it became so cumbersome and that 
> memory is one part that kept me from attempting it again in Rev for so 
> long. But I am ready now since I have a need to do it.  I think the 
> memory of taking this on again is what drove me to letting our Director 
> guy handle it in the first place. I will post some samples once I start 
> that part. The scripts will be all new using Rev's more powerful 
> features and the biggest part will be not falling into my old thinking 
> which was based on the 'limitations' in SC. Therefore, I am not going 
> back and reading 'any' of my old scripts but rather forcing myself to 
> start fresh and find new better ways.

The older I get, the more I throw code away.  I used to think code was 
important, but much of the time what I've learned since I wrote it is 
really more valuable.

Starting from scratch can be very refreshing.  With my products I tend 
to use major upgrades as an opportunity for a complete rewrite...

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Media Corporation
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