Database or Card Storage ?

lharris · Post by **lharris** » Wed May 27, 2009 1:17 pm

Hi - I'm new to rev but used to use hypercard quite a bit.
I want to convert an old hypercard based database to revolution. My G5s are all dying and I can no longer run os9. All my data is stored in cards right now. About 30k !. The program is basically a contact manager with billing info and reconciliation. Is there any advantage to changing to a database structure?

Thanks

BTW - I would like to add on an ical looking calendar that links to the contacts - anyone have any examples of a good way to display calendar data in a day-sheet type form?

/leonard

BvG · Post by **BvG** » Thu May 28, 2009 1:54 pm

Rev slows down after a few thousand cards (because it's all in Memory, not on the drive like HC would). I guess with 30 kiloBytes, you'll be way below that margin.

for callendars there's a few widgets to choose a date, but I've not seen a full grid view like iCal or Outlook have.

I've linked the ones I know in this topic, but I'm sure others exist.