 
SCRIPTING & APPLICATIONS
Part 5 of 5
SeeFrames 1.1 - SeeFrames is a utility for Newton developers. It
allows you to watch most of the objects and navigate into the memory of your Newton.
When you start SeeFrames from the extrasDrawer, it closes it and then shows you the slots
list of the 'viewfrontmost frame called "Front view" in the top left labelPicker
(it may be useful when debugging an application, especially if you have an ExtraButton of
ScrollEx attached to SeeFrames). To see the content of a frame or an array (ex _proto,
CodeBlock or viewChildren), tap on it and the slots list of it will be shown. You may
repeat this until there no more frame or array on the list. More details are given in the
documentation.
ShapesRus 0.95 - This utility allows a Newton developer to see the
visual appearance of the various NTK Drawing shape attribute choices & their
combinations. You can choose what NTK Shape primitive to draw, its foreground fill
pattern, its foreground pen pattern, its background fill pattern, and the mode of fg/bg
pixel interaction. You can define your own pattern and use it for fg fill, fg pen, or bg
fill pattern. It also shows you the HEX pattern value needed for NTK. Tap in input grid to
toggle on or off the 8x8 pixel location. You can define your own polygon shape to replace
the default polygon (pentagon) shape. Polygon input supports snap to grid option.
Slurpee 1.9 - Slurpee transfers paragraphs or tab-delimited text between
a text file and Newton soup entries via a terminal emulator and serial connection; type
via keyboard to Newton fields, and print values and errors to terminal. Now, NOS 2.0
Compatible! Changes in version 1.8 (8 May 96: NOS 2.0: import/export of outlines and
checkLists, new global settings (and mechanism), provides AutoConn? checkbox; stores many
settings as Preferences, allows line continuations for soup and entrySpec lines, added
keys for scrollUp and scrollDown, new types supported: 'dateTime, 'boolean, DUMP! with
empty frame spec exports all fields, long lines not truncated during DUMP, prevents
accidental soup creation for BYE, DUMP, ERASE, REPLACE, binary hex strings can contain
lowercase a-f in addition to A-F and more!
UniCode 1.01 - This is a simple app that show a list of characters and
their uniCode equivalent integers. The list is numbered along its left side. This number
is the uniCode decimal equivalent of the first character shown on its line. The app
defaults to displaying 20 characters across. You can change this by selecting from the
"Per line" pop-up near the bottom of the apps window. There are choices for 10,
15 and 20 characters per line. Just above the Per line pop-up is a font pop-up. Select
Espy, Geneva or New York and the list of characters will be displayed in that font. To use
uniCode info, refer to your NTK manuals and look up the Chr() and Ord() functions. Demo
expires after 30 days. This version will totally expire on 12/31/95.
Unistrokes 1.1 - This program was written to test the feasibility of
Unistroke recognition on the current generation of Newton PDAs and to collect data on the
perfomance of the Newton in stroke collection and recognition. It has no other intended
utility. Read the Caveats section. Unistrokes is a writing system developed at Xerox PARC
specifically for stylus based computers. For Postscript versions of the paper and lists of
strokes ftp to ftp.parc.xerox.com, look in /pub/unistrokes. The program ontains a large
rectangle, in which to test writing. It will show you how it interprets your stroke.
VideOut 1.0 - Purpose - To feed screen dumps to NTK/MAC for
"pseudo-simulated" video output. Use - 1) Connect inspector, open and size
clipboard on MAC screen, set timer to appropriate interval on VideOut. 2) To hide VidOut
screen, press hide. To terminate screen dumps, re-select VideOut from extras drawer.
Comment - Using an interval less than 5 sec is pointless, as the MAC and Newton will not
respond to external input. Needs turbo-charging, contact above for source if interested.
Requires use of Newton ToolKit, a commercial product from Apple.
ViewFrame is an object browsing and debugging
tool for the Newton, formerly commercially availavle now a freeware gift of the developer.
ViewFrame had been published for the last few years by Creative Digital. ViewFrame 1.2 was
the most recent commercial version. It works on every Newton device, however it leaves
some things to be desired on Newton 2.1 devices (such as keyboard equivalents and support
for grayscale icons). Freeware. Credit: Jason Harper.
X10 v0.9 - This is a small, floating app for the Apple Newton. By
connecting an X-10 CP290 interface to the Newton or your favorite home computer, you can
directly control up to 256 X-10 devices, including devices responding to dim commands
(light control modules). For technical information concerning the CP290, see the CP290
Programming Manual. Generally, the interface provides - a real-time clock, storage for
events, storage for graphics data, and transmission of control signals through the
electrical wiring of your home. The interface accepts eight types of instructions, has a
5-pin DIN RS232 interface, and 2k x 8 RAM. Requires Slurpee to load.
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