Apple Newton Programmer’s Newton 2.0 (for Newton 2.0) User Manual

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C H A P T E R 5

Stationery

5-12

Using Stationery

Add the protos that will display the data and labels to the working application. The
protos used here include:

■

newtSmartNameView

■

newtLabelNumInputLine

■

newtLabelDateInputLine

■

newtLabelTimeInputLine

You can read more about these protos in Chapter 4, “NewtApp Applications.” They
should be aligned as shown in Figure 5-4.

Figure 5-4

The default viewDef view template

Set the slots of the

newtSmartNameView

as follows:

■

Set the

label

slot to

"Who"

■

Set the

path

slot to

[pathExpr: kDataSymbol, 'who]

. The path slot

must evaluate to a slot in your data entry frame that contains a name (or a place
to store one).

■

Set the

usePopup

slot to

true