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Re: Update on dictionary request
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Re: Update on dictionary request


  • Subject: Re: Update on dictionary request
  • From: Art Isbell <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 10:18:40 -1000

On Monday, February 17, 2003, at 05:31  AM, Ken Foust wrote:

previous question:
I see on many website that you have a scrollable city and country user
input field
such as


_______ city _________ state or country

I would assume there is a importable dictionary containing this
infomation
is there ?  and if so where can I find the one for world cities and
countries???

Updated question?
I now assume that this would have to be in the form of a emodeled program that you would import when setting up you database!! Unless the datebase program is smart enough to search the dictionary?

You bind popup buttons or browsers to arrays of cities and states or countries. You can populate these arrays in a number of ways: from a Java Properties file, from an arbitrary file, hard-code in your Java code, fetch from a database. The challenge is to find a good source of these data. Once you've found that source, you can use it to create a file that's read at runtime, create NSArray's in your Java code, or create and populate database tables.


I would think that hard-coding this info in Java is the least appealing because any change would require code recompilation.

A Java Properties file doesn't support lists of data natively, but entering such data in property list (plist) format would allow you to use NSPropertyListSerialization methods to automatically parse plist strings into NSArrays. The same would apply to any arbitrary data file.

If a database is being accessed by your app anyway, I'd probably consider creating and populating database tables. It's certainly common to associate other database data with city, state, and country data, so keeping it all in a database makes managing such relationships easy.

Art
http://homepage.mac.com/aisbell/
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