Tamika --

There is actually a fairly extensive Hypercard-like facility in 
Squeak -- part of it is an extension of Hypercard and provides  the 
ability to make templates for "cards" and do retrievals on them -- a 
la various simple database programs on the PC and the Mac. This might 
be the simplest way to do what you are suggesting.

I will start typing in a tutorial for this on Thursday.

Also, quite a bit can be done just with the existing "Bookmorphs". I 
will try to send you something about these tomorrow.

Cheers,

Alan



  Before too long the "cards" of the "stack" and the "projects" of the 
"images" will be essentially the same thing (they almost are already).

At 3:08 PM -0500 11/5/01, Knox, Tamika wrote:
>Hi all!
>
>I posted a dilemma here over a month ago and Alan Kay was gracious 
>enough to create the following tutorial on the Swiki for us: 
><http://squeakland.org:8080/super/200>http://squeakland.org:8080/super/200
>
>There are three of us who have never used Squeak and we are still 
>having some problems.  In our last group meeting for this project, 
>we had the following concerns:
>
>Based on the above tutorial, instead of creating morphic projects 
>for each country (there are over 200+ countries), how can we go 
>about having one single "template" for each country and pull the 
>appropriate data from an external file as needed since the same data 
>will be required more than once? For example, we will need to pull 
>the same data for our tutorial section.
>
>Also, if we created external text files with the data (i.e. country 
>name - primary key, continent name - secondary key, etc) separating 
>the "record," if you will (I'm used to programming in Pascal), by 
>line, how does Squeak process the data?
>
>If anyone has a solution, we'll be glad to hear it. Also, any 
>Smalltalk or Squeak links that will assist us with data handling 
>will be greatly appreciated.
>
>  Thanks!
>
>-Tamika
>
>
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