Programming for the Newton®

ForewordAcknowledgementsPreface How to Read This Book What You Need to Program the Newton What You Need to Know to Program the Newton About the Demonstration Version of Newton ToolkitChapter 1: Newton Application Design Overview A Newton Glossary The Life Cycle of an Application Newton Interface Design Newton Application Designs Designing an Application—WaiterHelper SummaryChapter 2: Views on the Newton Everything Is a View Views on the Newton and Templates in NTK View Hierarchies View Classes Linking Templates Naming Templates Creating the Views of WaiterHelper SummaryChapter 3: Skeleton of a View What's in a View Common View Slots Why Use Justification? Using Justification Modifying the WaiterHelper Application SummaryChapter 4: Protos Introduction to Protos The System Protos Creating and Using User Protos Protos in WaiterHelper SummaryChapter 5: The Fundamentals of Newton Script A Brief Overview of NewtonScript Frames Arrays Symbols and Path Expressions Iterating with foreach Types Methods Additional NewtonScript Features The Benefits of NewtonScript Writing Code for WaiterHelper SummaryChapter 6: Inheritance in NewtonScript Overview of NewtonScript Inheritance Proto Inheritance Parent Inheritance Combining Proto and Parent Inheritance NewtonScript, Newton Toolkit, and the Newton SummaryChapter 7: View System and Messages How Views Are Created Other Messages the View System Sends View Messages You Send Declaring Views InstallScript and RemoveScript Adding Code to WaiterHelper SummaryChapter 8: Newton Data Storage Introduction Description of Methods and Functions Samples in the Inspector Handling Soups in Your Application Adding Soups to WaiterHelper SummaryChapter 9: Debugging Your Application The Inspector Printing Tracing Debugging Functions Exceptions The Debugging Process SummaryAppendix A: Important Methods Methods Covered in This Book Methods Not Covered in This BookAppendix B: Important Messages View/Proto Messages Store Methods Soup Methods Cursor MethodsAppendix C: Important Global Functions Global Functions Covered in This Book Global Functions Not Covered in This BookAppendix D: Important Global Variables Variables Covered in This Book Variables Not Covered in This BookAppendix E: NewtonScript Syntax About the Grammar Phrasal Grammar Lexical Grammar Operator PrecedenceAppendix F: Application Issues Setting Application Bounds Based on the Screen Size Creating Unique Application Symbols and NamesAppendix G: Using Newton Toolkit Installing NTK NTK Menus Creating a Project Creating a Layout Linking Layouts Creating a User Proto Creating and Modifying Templates The Slot Editor Additional Parts of Your Project Building and DownloadingIndex