On Nov 24, 2010, at 10:39 AM, Dan Beatty wrote:

> Greetings all,
> I agree with Farrukh, that would be a handy prototype.  The other idea I had 
> was to literally build a set of tables for a framework “SomeOnesDictionary” 
> where the super-class could be linked to any other object.

Perhaps what you want is our "virtual tables" framework?  It implements a 
database in a handful of tables with KVC access, relationships, and calculated 
fields.


Chuck


>  Both are good notions, and like I said seem so simple that it would be shock 
> that it had not been thought of before.
> 
> V.r.
> 
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> On 11/24/10 10:26 AM, "Farrukh Ijaz" <farrukh.i...@fuegodigitalmedia.com> 
> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 2010-11-24, at 9:23 PM, Ramsey Gurley wrote:
>> 
>>> There's a mutable dictionary attribute in ERPrototypes. Works with 
>>> ERXMutableDictonary.
>> 
>> Interesting! Does that automatically handle the back-and-forth conversion?
>> 
>> Farrukh
>> 
>>> 
>>> Ramsey
>>> 
>>> On Nov 24, 2010, at 1:13 PM, Dan Beatty wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Greetings Wizards,Dave, Chuck, ladies, and gentlemen,
>>>>  Got a weird question for you.  Does Wonder have a framework for having 
>>>> the notion a “plist” in the database itself.   The idea being that one 
>>>> would have an attribute that would basically be a plist dictionary (in and 
>>>> of itself)?   The idea seemed so simple, I find it hard to believe that it 
>>>> has not been conjured up before.  I am thinking that it would have a 
>>>> migration method similar to ERAttachment allowing any other table to 
>>>> reference such a dictionary, like ERDictionary or something.
>>>>  
>>>>  Any ideas?
>>>>  
>>>>  Daniel Beatty
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