Apple Newton Programmer’s Newton 2.0 (for Newton 2.0) - Manual (Page 570)

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Filing
15-4 About Filing
Filing and other system services display user messages containing a string that is
the user-visible name of your application. For example, this string is used to complete
the text displayed when the user creates a local folder. You need to create in your
application’s base view an
appName slot that holds this string. Figure 15-3 depicts
the text displayed when the user creates a folder that is local to the Notepad
application.
Figure 15-3 Creating a local folder
The system determines whether to display global or local folders by testing the
values of optional slots you can supply in the application’s base view. You can set
the value of the
localFoldersOnly slot to true to cause the Filing slip and
folder tab views to display only the current application’s local folders. You can set
the value of the
globalFoldersOnly slot to true to cause the Filing slip and
folder tab views to display only global folders. When these slots are both nil or
missing, the Filing slip and folder tab display global folders and the current
application’s local folders.
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W A R N I N G
The localFoldersOnly and globalFoldersOnly must not
both hold non- nil values at the same time. ▲
Your target view can provide an optional doCardRouting slot to control the
display of the buttons that specify the store on which to file the target. When an
external store is available and the value of the
doCardRouting slot is true , the
Filing slip includes buttons that represent available stores.
You must supply the full text of the string that labels this group of store buttons.
This string is held in an
appObjectFileThisOn slot that you provide. Similarly,
you must supply the full text of the string labelling the group of buttons that
represent filing categories. This string is held in an
appObjectFileThisIn slot
that you provide. Figure 15-2 shows where the Filing slip displays these strings.
"Notepad" string is from appName slot