Apple Newton Programmer’s Newton 2.0 (for Newton 2.0) - Manual (Page 115)

C H A P T E R 3
Views
About Views 3-31
New Alignment Flags 3
The viewJustify slot contains new constants that allow you to specify that a
view is sized proportionally to its sibling or parent view, both horizontally and/or
vertically.
A change to the way existing viewJustify constants work is that when you are
using sibling-relative alignment, the first sibling uses the parent alignment settings
(since it has no sibling to which to justify itself).
Changes to Existing Functions and Methods 3
The following changes have been made to existing functions and methods for 2.0.
■ RemoveStepView . This function now removes the view template from the
stepChildren array of the parent view. You do not need to remove the
template yourself.
■ SetValue . You can now use this global function to change the recognition
behavior of a view at run time by setting new recognition flags in the
viewFlags slot. The new recognition behavior takes effect immediately
following the SetValue call.
■ GlobalBox . This method now works properly when called from the
ViewSetupFormScript method of a view. If called from the
ViewSetupFormScript method, GlobalBox gets the viewBounds and
ViewJustify slots from the view, calculates the effects of the sibling and
parent alignment on the view bounds, and then returns the resulting bounds
frame in global coordinates.
■ LocalBox . This method now works properly when called from
the ViewSetupFormScript method of a view. If called from the
ViewSetupFormScript method, LocalBox gets the viewBounds and
ViewJustify slots from the view, calculates the effects of the sibling and
parent alignment on the view bounds, and then returns the resulting bounds
frame in local coordinates.
■ ViewQuitScript . When this message is sent to a view, it propagates down to
child views of that view. In system software version 1.0, the order in which child
views received this message and were closed was undefined.
In system software version 2.0, the order in which this message is sent to
child views is top-down. Also, each view has the option of having
ViewPostQuitScript called in child-first order. The return value of
the ViewQuitScript method determines whether or not the
ViewPostQuitScript message is sent.