Patchwork 1.1
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Patchwork 1.1 is a small package which solves two problems in Newton 2.0 during restarts occuring after a reset:

  1. Restoration of the previously selected remote city in TimeZones.
  2. Restoration of the previously selected view in Dates.

Normally, Newton sets the remote city to Tokyo, Japan, and the view in Dates to "Day" regardless of your previous selection. These informations are stored in Patchwork upon alteration by the user and then applied to the Newton restart.


How on Earth is it done?
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Thanks to the brilliant Newton operating system, it's possible to change almost any behavior of any object on the Newton. I've managed to point out the methods which are called when the user changes the above mentioned data.

By overriding these methods I'm able to control what should really happen. I call the original method (be glad of that!), and stores a reference to the selected data or view in Patchwork. During restart Patchwork reapplies the stored values.

None of these methods are documented by Apple, so Patchwork may fail to work in the future...


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Patchwork is freeware, please download it and give it to your Newton friends.



Have fun!

Joachim Bondo Schultz
September 26, 1996

jobs@inet.uni-c.dk
http://inet.uni-c.dk/~jobs/newton.html