Method Field Question

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 7/12/14, 11:36 AM, "Karl Grob" <kgrob at mus.ch> wrote:

Hi Karl,

> I understand. It is impossible to do what I wanted in this way.
 
> What do I want?
> Think of a bundle of pages of a manuscript and its representation in picture
> and text. You have the sheet (tblBlaetter) that has 2 sides (recto, verso:
> tblSeiten) and on every side, you have different frames as e.g. in Indesign
> (tblRahmen) to present a text in its original form (corrections, turned around
> etc.). 

> Within this structure you have although tblWords etc. If you want to
> find out on the screen where you are under every letter (cursor
> position=manuscript, page etc.) you must have all this information together in
> a very quick way (= in one Cursor - Client-Server!). This was my idea, but
> real ObjPtr-Links are of course although possible.

> I have to mix between using links and search-routines. The ObjPtrs give me the
> correct RecIds of the far away Parents and the database guarantees the
> consistency.

Wait please.

So you want show on screen of some client-computer
Some document, its page, and then
 by mouse position -- show some tooltip with all that info.

Okay.

But you can easy get this right from RAM of your client computer at this
moment:
    * you know which document is opened
    * you know which page you show,

I do not see reason keep in DB itself   pointer T1_ptr in table T3.

 
> Thanks and best regards
> Karl
> 
> BTW: You can see a first version (without Faksimiles) if you download the
> Client from www.eHKKA.ch. It works with about 3¹500¹000 Words in a similar
> structure - not yet as fine as necessary for facsimiles.

-- 
Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

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