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From: SUN@VENUS.YCC.YALE.EDU (Kang Sun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: USING HYPERCARD FOR DATA ENTRY?
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Date: 21 Sep 88 05:32:33 GMT
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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