Sample Code List - sorted by category Updated 28 Nov 1995 NOTE: Sample code is written, blessed, and provided by Newton DTS and maintained by Bob Ebert. Please mail ebert@newton.apple.com or ALink: EBERT if you would like to comment, request, submit, or otherwise chat about sample code. DTS does not necessarily guarantee lack of bugs and/or suitability of samples for home use. The sample code provided by DTS should run and have some reasonable level of documentation, and will generally illustrate an important point about Newton programming, but should not be viewed as the correct or ideal approach for all occasions. Design issues vary from application to application, and (good as they are) the DTS engineers occasionally make mistakes. True Grid v4-11/25/95 by Bob Ebert for Newton ToolKit 1.6 category: Application Design keywords: Grid View, Drawing, columns, proto, performance description: Implements three different ways to do scrolling "grid" views based on soup data, and evaluates the complexity and performance tradeoffs of each. DeletionScript v2-11/25/95 by Jim Schram for Newton ToolKit 1.6 category: Application Design keywords: Deletion, auto-part, form-part description: Demonstrates how to setup and use deletionScripts for auto and form parts. Gauges v2-11/25/95 by Kent Sandvik for Newton ToolKit category: Controls & Other Protos keywords: protoGauge max min protoLabelinputline description: the Gauges sample shows the following techniques: Ą How to use a protoGauge Ą How to change the max (or min) values of a gauge dynamically Ą How to tie together this with smart use of a protoLabelInputLine Glancing v2-11/25/95 by Kent Sandvik for Newton ToolKit category: Controls & Other Protos keywords: protoGlance, protoLabeledBatteryGauge, protoPictureButton description: Demonstrates a few system protos. Ą Show how protoGlances work Ą Has a protoLabeledBatteryGauge inside the Glance Ą Shows how protoPictureButtons work Radio Cluster v3-11/25/95 by Kent Sandvik for Newton ToolKit 1.6 category: Controls & Other Protos keywords: protoradiobutton, protoRadioCluster description: demonstrates a radio button cluster. Ą Shows how radio clusters and radiobuttons work Ą Shows how to extract info from the radio cluster Ą Shows some fun with view transition effects NouveauScroll v1-11/25/95 by Maurice Sharp for Newton ToolKit 1.6 category: Controls & Other Protos keywords: prototypes, scroll, scrollers description: This sample shows how to use the new scrollers. It gives 2 examples, one that uses a vanilla scroller. The other uses accellerated scrolling and feedback. Soup Tour v4-11/25/95 by David Levy & Kent Sandvik for Inspector/Listener category: Data Storage (Soups) keywords: Soup index entries stores Query Cursor description: This is a simple walkthrough of many store and soup functions, including queries and smart index tricks. Check this out using an Inspector Window. Beyond Help v5-11/25/95 by Bob Ebert & Maurice Sharp for Newton Book Maker category: Digital Books keywords: Help Book, Dickens, Tiny Tim, How Do I description: Illustrates creation and usage of a custom help book. BookSample v4-11/25/95 by Bob Ebert for Newton Book Maker category: Digital books keywords: Digital Books, Dickens, Copperfield, Book Maker, Book Reader, Users Guide description: A sample book source--the Newton Book Maker User's Manual in Newton Book Reader form. Up In Smoke v3323-11/25/95 by Mike Engber for Newton ToolKit 1.6 category: Drawing & Graphics keywords: Smoke, Clouds, Poof, Drawing, CopyBits, modeMask description: Shows how to achieve the ever popular smoke/poof/scrub effect. Also illustrates scaling with CopyBits, using modeMask with CopyBits, and using BuildContext to force an update of an area of the screen. Dot2Dot v3-11/25/95 by Kent Sandvik for Newton ToolKit 1.6 category: Drawing & Graphics keywords: view points polygon description: Demonstrates the following: Ą mapping global coordinates to local ones Ą tracking pen clicks and convert them to an array suitable for a polygon Ą view system handling Ą creating arrays in RAM Ą dynamically changing a clPictureView's icon slot Bitmap v1-11/25/95 by Bob Ebert & J. Christopher Bell for Newton ToolKit 1.6 category: Drawing & Graphics keywords: Bitmap, drawing, transform, viewintobitmap, scaling, offset, drawshape, makebitmap description: Shows the basics of manipulating bitmap objects & transform on the Newton. Drawing v4-11/25/95 by Bob Ebert for Newton ToolKit 1.6 category: Drawing & Graphics keywords: drawing, polygon, line, point, rectangle, style, font, pict, shape description: Demonstrates functions in drawing chapter, shows how to make shapes and display them, as well as how to offset the shapes. Basic LlamaTalk v1-11/25/95 by Jim Schram for Newton ToolKit 1.6 category: Endpoints keywords: LlamaTalk LlamaShare AppleTalk ADSP MNP Echo Server State Machine description: Updated LlamaTalk sample for use with Newton 2.0 protoBasicEndpoint. The Newton component is a simple front-end which demonstrates sending and receiving transactions of various data types. It makes calls to a protoLlamaTalk user proto which is an encapsulation of EVERYTHING needed to handle ADSP and MNP communications reliably. The Mac component is a simple back-end which receives transactions and echos back a "hex dump" of the transaction data. It makes calls to a robust multiple-client communications library built on top of the Mac CommToolBox. ALL I/O is asynchronous and interrupt-driven. The library uses no globals and can be called from within an Application, Control Panel, Init, XCommand, 4D External, etc. etc. Basic Modem v2-11/25/95 by Jim Schram for Newton ToolKit 1.6 category: Endpoints keywords: Modem CommScripting Communications description: ACME Modem ported to 2.0 Provides an example of CommScripting in the 2.0 world. Basic Serial v1-11/25/95 by Jim Schram for Newton ToolKit 1.6 category: Endpoints keywords: Communications, Serial, ASync, EndPoints, CommScripting description: ACME Serial ported to 2.0 Provides an example of CommScripting in the 2.0 world. Modem Setup v2-11/25/95 by Jim Schram for Newton ToolKit 1.6 category: Modem Setup keywords: Communications, Modem, Installer description: Complete installer shell to build custom modem setups for use by the modem enabler system extension. Checkbook v5-11/25/95 by Neil Rhodes & PIE DTS for Newton ToolKit 1.6 category: NewtApp keywords: Application, Find, Filing, IA, Views, Soups, newtApp description: Full application example using newtApp. Supports routing, filing, find, etc. See the README for more info. MonacoTest v4-11/25/95 by Bob Ebert & J. Christopher Bell for Newton ToolKit 1.6 category: Newton Toolkit keywords: Fonts monospaced nonproportional printing install package monaco courier description: This sample provides a mono-spaced font for use on the Newton (Monaco 9pt) and gives a short demonstration of how to use it on screen and in printing. The most recent font package can substitute courier for monaco when printing to a PostScript printer which contains the necessary fonts. Now shows how to create packages that will install a font only if necessary. MooUnit v1-11/25/95 by Mike Engber for Newton ToolKit 1.6 category: Newton Toolkit keywords: Unit Import Export, Moo, DeclareUnit, DefineUnit, UnitImport, AliasUnit description: Shows how to use the Unit Import/Export mechanism to use data from one package within another package. Inspector Gadget v4-11/25/95 by Bob Ebert & Ando Moon for Newton ToolKit 1.6 category: NewtonScript keywords: Compile, NewtonScript, Hack, Evaluate description: Demonstrates using the ŇCompileÓ function to write newtonscript from a Newton unit itself. Has a simple math expression evaluator as well. Code on the plane... PictIndex v1-11/25/95 by Maurice Sharp for Newton ToolKit 1.6 category: Pickers, Popups, and Overviews keywords: proto, protoPictIndexer, pictures description: Demonstrates using protoPictIndexer, which allows you to specify a large picture as a series of selectable small pictures. ListPickerSamples v1-11/25/95 by Stephen Harris for Newton ToolKit 1.6 category: Pickers, Popups, and Overviews keywords: prototypes, listPicker, protoListPicker description: A set of samples showing most of the API's for protoListPicker. Includes array and soup based listPickers. WhereInTheWorld v1-11/25/95 by J. Christopher Bell for Newton ToolKit 1.6 category: Pickers, Popups, and Overviews keywords: protoWorldPicker, protoCountryPicker, protoProvincePicker, protoStatePicker description: Shows the map-based pickers. WordArray v2-11/25/95 by J. Christopher Bell for Newton ToolKit 1.6 category: Recognition keywords: word array, GetWordArray, GetScoreArray description: This project shows how to access the recognition engine's statistics regarding most-likely words and confidence scores. The GetWordArray and GetScoreArray functions do most of the work in this sample code project. CharEdit v2-11/25/95 by J. Christopher Bell & Bob Ebert for Newton ToolKit 1.6 category: Recognition keywords: CharEdit, template, letter by letter, corrector description: This example shows the basics of the CharEdit proto, the letter-by-letter editor built into Newton 2.0. CustomRoute v2-11/25/95 by J. Christopher Bell for Newton ToolKit 1.6 category: Routing keywords: Routing, Transports, Delete, Duplicate, Print, Beam, Mail, Fax description: Shows how to set up your routing formats and routeScripts for Newton OS 2.0. Sound Advice v3-11/25/95 by Maurice Sharp for Newton ToolKit 1.6 category: Sound keywords: sound, resources description: Shows how to import sounds into NTK and play the sound from NewtonScript. Bitchin' Piano v3-11/25/95 by Todd Courtois for Newton ToolKit 1.6 category: Sound keywords: sound, samplingRate description: This sample takes two downloaded sample sounds and changes the pitch to create a two-octave "keyboard". Sound Tricks v4-11/25/95 by Todd Courtois for Newton ToolKit 1.6 category: Sound keywords: Sound samples, ExtractByte, StuffByte, PlaySound, Native description: SoundTricks is intended to demonstrate a couple tricks with sound on the Newton, modifying the samplingRate of a sound sample to shift speed and pitch, and using StuffByte and ExtractByte on the actual sound samples to reverse a sound. Demonstrates use of native function to give dramatic speed increases. WhoOwesWhom v2-11/25/95 by Bob Ebert & Greg Christie for Newton ToolKit 1.6 category: Stationery keywords: stationery, newtapp, notes application, three flavors, IOU description: Illustrates how to use stationery in a newtApp based application. All three flavors of newtApp (card, roll, page) are shown, using the same dataDef and viewDefs. Additionally the same stationery is registered for use with the built-in Notes application. Extra Change v3-11/25/95 by Mike Engber for Newton ToolKit 1.6 category: System Data & Built In Apps keywords: SetExtrasInfo Extras Drawer Icon description: This sample app changes it's icon(and text) in the Extras drawer when you tap it. PeoplePicker v1-11/25/95 by Stephen Harris for Newton ToolKit 1.6 category: System Data & Built In Apps keywords: protos, prototypes, protoPeoplePicker, peoplePicker, cardfile, names description: Shows how to use the protoPeoplePicker to choose people from the cardfile. CardFile Extensions v1-11/25/95 by Bob Ebert & Tony Fang for Newton ToolKit 1.6 category: System Data & Built In Apps keywords: Stationery, Layout, Names application, cardfile, bizcard, car make model description: This sample shows how to extend the built-in Names application by adding new card types, new information to existing card types, new ways of looking at existing cards, and new bizCard formats. PeriodicElements v1-11/25/95 by J. Christopher Bell for Newton ToolKit 1.6 category: System Services keywords: alarm,periodicAlarmEditor description: Illustrates using a periodicAlarmEditor in Newton OS 2.0. Ink Form v1-11/25/95 by Bob Ebert & J. Christopher Bell for Newton ToolKit 1.6 category: Text Input keywords: Ink, Text, RichText, Rich Strings, RecToggle, vFixedTextStyle, vFixedInkTextStyle description: This example shows how to use Newton 2.0 Recognition and Ink features. This sample uses the new recConfig frames and manipulates Rich Strings (strings which can include "ink words.") Includes a custom configed RecToggle, and shows how to use features of clParagraphViews to force ink and text to a given font/size/style and do deferred recognition. InkTranslate v1-11/25/95 by J. Christopher Bell for Newton ToolKit 1.6 category: Text Input keywords: StrokeToPointsArray, ink, shapes, description: Turns stroke bundles (one form of digital ink) into points arrays, and from there into shapes to be rendered in a different view. An improvement on Different Strokes. QWERTY v3-11/25/95 by J. Christopher Bell and Maurice Sharp for Newton ToolKit category: Text Input keywords: keyboard, qwerty, protoKeypad, protoKeyboard description: The QWERTY project shows how to implement an on-screen keyboard which does not prompt for "add-to-dictionary?" or have the "dictionary" icon. This sample project creates a keyboard which looks like the American QWERTY keyboard. Keys v4-11/25/95 by Maurice Sharp, J. Christopher Bell for Newton ToolKit 1.6 category: Text Input keywords: key, protoKeyboard, protoKeypad, clKeyboardView description: This shows how to do a keyboard, including using a picture for a keycap and using strings for what the key prints out. The new version shows one of the keys which will 'modify' the visual and output components of another key. ArchiveTransport v1-11/25/95 by J. Christopher Bell for Newton ToolKit 1.6 category: Transports keywords: Transports Communications Routing IOBox description: An example of writing a new Transport to route data in the Newton 2.0 OS to communicate with the IOBox and other applications. Status Report v1-11/25/95 by J. Christopher Bell and Bob Ebert for Newton ToolKit 1.6 category: Transports keywords: status protoStatusTemplate DoProgress statusTemplate description: This example shows how to use protoStatusTemplate default templates, custom templates, and the use of the DoProgress(...) function. The example also shows how to structure your application so that the user can close status dialogs and still continue within the application while receiving visual feedback from actions in progress. AdjustoButton v1-11/25/95 by Maurice Sharp for Newton ToolKit 1.6 category: User Interface keywords: button, user interface, UI description: This sample provides user prototypes for buttons that will automatically adjust themselves to obey the user interface guidelines on button spacing. 2 protos are provided, one for a standalone button (protoAdjustoButton) and one for clusters of buttons (protoAdjustoClusterButton). The buttons also readjust when their text values are set using SetValue. Clock v2-11/25/95 by Maurice Sharp for Newton ToolKit 1.6 category: Views keywords: idle, viewIdleScript, time, date description: Demonstrates idle script and some time functions. DatePick v2-11/25/95 by Bob Ebert for Newton ToolKit 1.6 category: Views keywords: Month, clMonthView, local scrolling, user proto, date, day description: Shows a user proto that implements a clMonthView based date picker like the one found in the preferences or calendar app. Lots of good stuff about clMonthView in here. SyncScroll v1-11/25/95 by J. Christopher Bell for Newton ToolKit 1.6 category: Views keywords: SyncScroll scroll view height templates description: This example shows how to use SyncScroll and how to use the 'height' slot correctly with view templates. Thumbnail v1-11/25/95 by Bob Ebert for Newton ToolKit 1.6 category: Views keywords: clRemoteView clEditView scaling clipping thumbnail description: Shows how to use clRemoteView. Shows how to make a read-only view based on a "live" clEditView. TabsNStyles v3-11/25/95 by Kent Sandvik and J. Christopher Bell for Newton ToolKit 1.6 category: Views keywords: clParagraphView styles tabs description: demonstrates: Ą style information in a clParagraphView Ą tab information in a clParagraphView DragonDrop v1-11/25/95 by J. Christopher Bell, Jim Speir for Newton ToolKit 1.6 category: Views keywords: DragAndDrop, Drag, Drop, Views, View System description: Illustrates how to use the Drag and Drop API. Also demonstates how to drag an item and change it's appearance. The sample will allow any picture or text to be dragged into it. ViewScripts v3-11/25/95 by Bob Ebert & Gabriel Acosta-Lopez for Newton ToolKit 1.6 category: Views keywords: viewSetupFormScript, viewSetupChildrenScript, viewSetupDoneScript, viewDrawScript, viewQuitScript, viewPostQuitScript, viewClickScript description: illustrates order of form, child, done, drawing, click, quit, and postQuit scripts. Paragraph Scroll v4-11/25/95 by Todd Courtois for Newton ToolKit 1.6 category: Views keywords: scrolling, size, viewOrigin description: ParagraphScroll shows one way to scroll a clParagraphView one pixel at a time. Creates the view, stuffs it full of text, then changes the viewOrigin of the parent repeatedly.