Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!gatech!ncar!husc6!yale!sun From: sun@venus.ycc.yale.edu (Kang Sun) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard Subject: Using Hypercard for Data entry? Message-ID: <38415@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Date: 21 Sep 88 14:22:26 GMT Sender: root@yale.UUCP Organization: Yale Computer Center, New Haven Lines: 30 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