Advice on storing properties

[Charles Yeomans]

On Sunday, August 24, 2003, at 04:58 AM, Jan Erik Moström wrote:

> I want to design a database that contains some unique settings for each
> database. I would like to store this information together with the
> database in a single file but I'm unsure of what is the best way of
> doing it. I could make a new table and store the information there ...
> but it seems a bit wasteful (only one single information piece with a
> lot of different kind of data in in, text as well as different binary
> information).
>
> I might be missing something but I couldn't find a way of making a
> "global variable" where I could store this information. So, does anyone
> have any advice on how to do this?
>

A Mac alternative to the other suggestions is to store the information 
in resources.  Valentina doesn't use the resource fork, so you 
shouldn't have any conflicts.

Charles Yeomans