Recognition

About the Recognition System

Recognition-related view flags

View Flags

9

The system supplies a number of constants, called view flags, which are used to set
bits in a view's

viewFlags

slot programmatically. In general, each of these flags

activates a combination of recognizers and dictionaries suited to recognizing a
particular kind of input. Thus, a view's view flags specify the kinds of data it is
likely to recognize successfully. For a summary of the view flags that affect
recognition, see "Constants" (page 9-31).

There are two ways to set view flags from NewtonScript: you can place view flag
constants in your view template's

viewFlags

slot or you can supply a recognition

configuration (

recConfig

) frame for the view. Occasionally, the use of both

techniques is appropriate, but in most cases you'll use only one or the other.

Recognition Configuration Frames

9

Recognition configuration frames (

recConfig

frames) provide an alternate

programmatic interface to the recognition system. They can be used to provide any
behavior that view flags provide, and can also be used to provide specialized
recognition behaviors that view flags cannot. For example, view flags generally set

vTimeField
vDateField
vPhoneField

Reserved for system use

vShapesAllowed

5

0

10

15

20

24

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

vAnythingAllowed

vSingleUnit

vCustomDictionaries

vCharsAllowed
vNumbersAllowed
vLettersAllowed
vPunctuationAllowed

vClickable
vStrokesAllowed
vGesturesAllowed

vAddressField
vNameField
vCapsRequired

vNothingAllowed