SUN@VENUS.YCC.YALE.EDU (Kang Sun) (09/21/88)
Greetings,
I need suggestions on using Hypercard to do data entry job.
I am using DBASEII+ at work to do some data entry and some
statistical analysis on an IBM PC (sorry to say that, but I have no
choice).
I would like to do the same on my Mac+ at home, but cannot afford the
DBASE/MAC (around $300). However, I would like at least to do
the data entry part on MAC, possibly using hypercard. Could someone please
send me a sample stack if he or she has done so before?
On DBASE, each field has a definite type, length, and precision
(for number). I only need Character strings, Date, and Number. I scanned
through some hypercard books and cannot find an easy way to enforce the
type
of each field, e.g., for a field of type data accepts only 6 digits XXXXXX
and display it as XX/XX/XX.
My intuition is that one record of a database correspond to one
card of hypercard. What if the number of fields (entries) of a record
cannot fits in one card, whose size is constrained by the size of the
screen (am I right on it)?
Any comments, suggestions and sample stacks will be highly
appreciated.
Thank you.
--- Kang Sun
sun@yalevms.bitnet
sun@venus.ycc.yale.edusun@venus.ycc.yale.edu (Kang Sun) (09/21/88)
Greetings, I need suggestions on using Hypercard to do data entry job. I am using DBASEII+ at work to do some data entry and some statistical analysis on an IBM PC (sorry to say that, but I have no choice). I would like to do the same on my Mac+ at home, but cannot afford the DBASE/MAC (around $300). However, I would like at least to do the data entry part on MAC, possibly using hypercard. Could someone please send me a sample stack if he or she has done so before? On DBASE, each field has a definite type, length, and precision (for number). I only need Character strings, Date, and Number. I scanned through some hypercard books and cannot find an easy way to enforce the type of each field, e.g., for a field of type data accepts only 6 digits XXXXXX and display it as XX/XX/XX. My intuition is that one record of a database correspond to one card of hypercard. What if the number of fields (entries) of a record cannot fits in one card, whose size is constrained by the size of the screen (am I right on it)? Any comments, suggestions and sample stacks will be highly appreciated. Thank you. --- Kang Sun sun@yalevms.bitnet sun@venus.ycc.yale.edu