Can Dreamcard do a search program?

[Dan Shafer]

John.....

Yes, you could build such an app in Dreamcard. I'm not sure the app
would be very efficient or effective and there are significant
technical and performance issues to be addressed along the way. Just
as one example, you say it needs to be able to find "docs". Are these
docs all in one easy (text) format? Or do you need or want to search
formatted documents like Word files? Or even more difficult, PDFs?

Given that OS X has Spotlight for such searches, it's hard to see how
you could improve on that software but what you want to do is
feasible, just not very easy.

On 1/19/06, johnaskins at earthlink.net <johnaskins at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Can I use Dreamcard to develop a text search application for my personal use? I'm not a programmer but am willing to learn. The app needs to be able to find docs containing text strings and then allow the list of documents resulting
> from the search to be further searched. My platform is Mac G5.
>
> Thanks for any tips.
>
> John Askins
>
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