Pickers, Pop-up Views, and Overviews

General-Purpose Pickers

protoPeoplePopup

The following two protos are data types that support the

protoListPicker

:

protoNameRefDataDef

protoPeopleDataDef

Obsolete Function

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The

DoPopup

global function used in system software version 1.x is obsolete; it is

supported in version 2.0, but support is not guaranteed in future releases. Use the
new

PopupMenu

function instead.

Picker Categories

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The remainder of this chapter divides the pickers into a number of categories. The
protos within each category operate in a related manner. General-purpose protos
are used to create simple, general-purpose pickers and pop-up views. The remaining
protos in the list are triggered by specific user actions or by events that you define:

general-purpose pickers

map pickers

text pickers

date, time, and location pickers

number pickers

picture picker

overview protos

roll protos

There is also a section discussing the view classes used with pickers.

General-Purpose Pickers

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You use the protos described in this section to create simple, general-purpose
pickers and pop-up views. Some of the following protos are triggered by specific
user actions, while others are triggered by events that you define:

The

protoPopupButton

picker is a text button that displays a picker when

tapped. The button is highlighted while the picker is open. For information
about the slots and methods for this picker, see "protoPopupButton" (page 5-4)
in Newton Programmer's Reference. Figure 6-1 shows an example of a

protoPopupButton

.