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<div>Tamika --</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>I will start typing in a tutorial for this on Thursday.</div>
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<div>Also, quite a bit can be done just with the existing
"Bookmorphs". I will try to send you something about these
tomorrow.</div>
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<div>Cheers,</div>
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<div>Alan</div>
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<div> Before too long the "cards" of the "stack"
and the "projects" of the "images" will be
essentially the same thing (they almost are already).</div>
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<div>At 3:08 PM -0500 11/5/01, Knox, Tamika wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font color="#000000">Hi all!</font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font color="#000000">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:</font> <a
href="http://squeakland.org:8080/super/200"><font
color="#000000">http://squeakland.org:8080/super/200</font></a><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font color="#000000">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:</font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font color="#000000">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.</font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font color="#000000">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?</font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font color="#000000">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.</font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font
color="#000000"> Thanks!</font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font color="#000000">-Tamika</font><br>
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