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Re: Mathematica 6.0: How to collect data with Manipulate? - not

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• Subject: [mg93360] Re: Mathematica 6.0: How to collect data with Manipulate? - not
• From: Marc Heusser <marc.heusser at byeheusser.commercialspammers.invalid>
• Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 04:52:19 -0500 (EST)
• Organization: University of Zurich
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In article <gepaqj$s9a$1 at smc.vnet.net>,
 "David Park" <djmpark at comcast.net> wrote:

> Marc,
> 
> Throw Manipulate in the ashcan.
> 
> It is quite a lot of work to design and program good data collection
> systems, but here is a reasonable start.
> 
> First, I think you need a key for each record so the record can be
> identified, retrieved and updated or deleted. In this case I am going to use
> the name of the person as the key. A fancier system would have data
> checking, and perhaps a message box to indicate actions that couldn't be
> completed. Here are the bare bones. ...

Thank you very much - that get's me started, just what I needed!
In the beginning it is sometimes not easy to find the right functions 
and abstraction levels ...

Marc

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