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- This is a set of three linked stacks that we made to track our media
- collection. It was originally one stack but then we modified it a little (there
- are a few holes in the logic) to also keep track of chapters and and divisions
- within a book or journal.
-
- Basically what we have here that you may be interested in is a small routine
- that shows who has what book "checked out", and how simply it's linked to the
- BOOKS stack and it's HERE/GONE button(s). This could easily be modified to add
- expiration dating linked to some sort of status table (automatically assigning
- due dates according to the borrower's status) or, easier, a series of buttons
- within a field (labeled "three days", "one week", "three weeks", "all
- semester", "other", etc.).
-
- As an example of buttons within a field that show or vanish according to your
- whim, click on the HERE button in the BOOKS section and type a person's name.
- Leave that card and come back to it and then look at the field. Simple.
-
- This stack set is incomplete and should not be offered to anyone for download
- or direct use. It was written under the restrictions and realities of HyperCard
- 1.0. To reduce it's size, I've pulled the thesaurus (which I created for
- keyword consistency) and, because of modifications that really should have
- called for a complete rewrite, there are a few weird card tracking bugs. It's
- only purpose here is to demonstrate how you can do simple tracking without
- complicated/obscure scripting or XCMDs.
-
- Jesse
-