on 6/22/02 18:02, Jan Costenbader at janc (AT) electours DOT com wrote:
Hi Jan,
> Valentina supports both BLOB=B9s (binary large objects) and picture element=
s,
> however, as I understand the first implementation of Valentina in iShell=
,
> these won=B9t be supported. However, you certainly can store the URL=B9s to t=
he
> picture or even if you are using standard naming conventions, you can bui=
ld
> the URL=B9s out of strings. Even given the ability to store pictures in
> Valentina, I probably would not... I would store the URL instead.
All depends on your task.
For example many Director developers prefer store small and middle size
pictures into db, but movies are stored as URL.
> That would=20
> make updating much simpler. This is the way we have done things with our =
High
> School yearbooks... Photos of a thousand students linked to a contact she=
et =AD
> no database was used (or even tables for that matter =AD this was in iShell=
1
> days). It took some careful arrangement of data, but it worked.
Problem with such structure of data -- easy corruption by customer.
So again, you an choose from 2 ways.
BTW, note, that Valentina use JPG compression for Picture field.
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Best regards,
Ruslan Zasukhin
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