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- Item 7159526 24-Nov-89 10:53
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- From: D1165 Esha, David C Hands,PRT
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- To: MACAPP.TECH$ MacApp Technical
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- Sub: Databases and Documents
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- Hello MacApper's,
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- I need some advice on a design issue... I'm writing an application that can
- create two different types of documents. One type is a database document the
- other is a document that is built by retrieving elements of the database (a
- rough analogy might be a spelling checker that uses a dictionary database to
- create a text document. Most of the time the user creates text documents but
- occasionally they will create a new dictionary document for special words).
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- The question I have is how to organize the two documents types so that an open
- "text" document can search and retrieve data from all open database documents.
- I don't see a clean way for MacApp to have one document interrogate a second.
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- Also, where and how should a document reference a database. I can't have a
- field of a document be the only reference to the database(s) because I still
- need to create/edit databases without creating a document. The database is
- such an integral part of the application (the progran cannot run unless at
- least one database document is opened) should it be a field of the application?
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- Any suggestion?
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- David Hands
- ESHA Research
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- p.s. I read the article about databases in the September Frameworks and it's a
- bit too much for my purposes. The database I'm searching is a simple flat file
- of records, very few database frills are required.
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