#Vidtape Storage
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Jonathan,
I dl'ed your tape library program also… mainly because I've been hacking
on mine since the 8-bit Atari days, 🙂 so I like to see what other
programmers have come up with. Adding a field for a tape number or
identifier is a good idea. Like Robert, I record lots of things on a
single tape. Some of my tapes might have 50 individual segments to index.
One of the more amusing things I had in the Atari version was a "topics"
field. The topics field just contained 4 one-byte tokens that were indexes
into a list of the actual topic names. When the program started it read in
all of the topic fields from a separate file. The end result was that you
could ask for "Star Trek" and "Computers" and get a list of the
appropriate episodes. I'm working on translating this into Cando. It uses
a couple of list objects, one to hold the available topics and a second to
hold the selected ones.
Jim
Okay, then… it's settled. I will start working on adding a field for tape
number.
The topic you speak of sounds like the category on mine. You can use whatever
you wish for the topic name (Star Trek or whatever) and then perform a search.
The list at the bottom will then only display those that match.
Thanks for the input!
Jon