Yet another Newbie Question

[Simon HARPER]

Thanks for this.


Cheers
Si.

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Simon Harper
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University of Manchester (UK)

Pri: simon.harper at manchester.ac.uk
Alt: sharper at cs.man.ac.uk


On 3 Apr 2007, at 20:17, Stephen Barncard wrote:

> a data stack using custom properties and property sets is one of  
> the best ways to store arrays in Rev (and data in general).
>
> You can also put data inside the data using text lists inside a  
> custom property. This of course puts stricter limits on what goes  
> into certain places.
>
> key1 <tab> data <tab> data2 <tab> data3 <otherDelim> <subData>
> key2 <tab> data <tab> data2 <otherDelim> <subData>  <tab> data3
> key3 <tab> data <tab> data2 <tab> data3
>
> an entire array of datasets can be punched into or retrieved from a  
> stack in one line of code. Loop through the arrays in a script to  
> copy over, or use the clone command.
>
> lots of ways to accomplish the tasks.
>
> In MacOS X the data could live a stack inside a package, just  
> outside the app or a stack in a special folder that is designated  
> in the OS. (see specialfolderpath in the docs)
>
> Text files work for certain data situations like listings that need  
> to be occasionally manipulated by the user, but have no structure,  
> XML is searchable and structured, but bulky - large files. They  
> both need to be loaded in from disk.
>
> With custom properties, if you know generally where some of your  
> data is, searching can be very fast.  Also access time is very  
> fast, almost as fast as variables, because it's all held in ram.
>
>
>
>> Hi there,
>> so I've a couple of questions (which may be silly)
>>
>> 1) If I create version 1 of an application which saves data as a  
>> stack - then create version 2 which adds functionality (but  
>> probably doesn't change the data format) how do I get the stack  
>> data from version 1 into the newly installed version 2?
>>
>> 2) It seems that a good idea is to create a Library and Data  
>> Manager stack, so now I'm wondering is it 'better' to push all  
>> data to disk, as say xml or text, then reload it all into an array  
>> in the Data Manager and then step through the array and perform  
>> all other actions on the array - if you like - a kind of  
>> abstraction? which leads me to the question - is there the concept  
>> of a record structure as in c/c++ or is it best to use a 2  
>> dimensional array?
>>
>> Sorry once again if this is all obvious.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Si.
>>
>> ====
>> Simon Harper
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