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Re: Categories




On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, James Purchase wrote:

> Roger
> 
> >The only catch is that the entry form has
> >to require the information that we'll need to categorize the entries,
> >should categories be needed.
> 
> Not necessarily. It's more a matter of grunt work on someone's part.Let me
> explain (and I promise not to launch into yet another disertation on my
> philosophy of life in a wormhole... <g>)

[snip]

> The "sorter" decides which category each image logically falls into (this
> wouldn't work for a "size" sorting as all of the thumbnails would be the
> same size), and just records the ID numbers on a piece of paper.

[snip]

But wouldn't the sorter need information from the entry form to decide
what category the image falls into?  That is, if the categories are based
on tank volume, wouldn't the tank volume need to be recorded on the entry
form?  Likewise for professional/amateur status, biotope aquarium or not,
and so on.


Roger Miller
(another happy Linux user)


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