On Tue, 7 Aug 2001 08:36:02 -0400 (EDT), Stan Brown wrote:
>I'm writing a generic table editor in perltk for some operations types to
>use.
>But it does not work
>(for reasons that will become obvious in a moment) on table with, say, a
>million rows.
> The problem with this is obvious, on large data sets. I am making a compy
> of the data, and I run out of virtual memory.
You are offering the user a GUI with a table containing a million rows?
Are you nuts? (just kidding) How on earth is the user going to have to
find what he's looking for?
Just offer the user a chance to select the records he's likely to be
interested in. Or create an interface much like the web search engines,
which display only a limited number of results at a time, and where the
user can step between tables.
--
Bart.
