Stack file size

[Lars Brehmer]

Hi Signe Marie and Xavier!

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!

Cheers,

Lars