Built-in Applications and System Data

Icons and the Extras Drawer

This section also covers creating a cursor that iterates over icons in the Extras
Drawer, and a number of functions that manipulate the entries these cursors iterate
over. With these functions you can programmatically open an icon (which has the
same effect as a user tapping the icon), and get information about the package the
icon represents.

In addition, the Newton 2.0 system creates an icon for any soup on a mounted store
in the Storage folder of the Extras Drawer. Tapping this icon brings up a slip that
displays information about the memory consumption of the soup (see Figure 19-10).
It also provides a delete button, which can delete the soup. And, without too much
work, you can provide a filing button that allows the user to move the soup to a
different store or folder. This is accomplished through what is called the
soupervisor mechanism.

The information slips for an application's soup that do and do not
support the soupervisor mechanism (note extra filing button)

Extras Drawer Compatibility

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Everything described in this section is new to the Newton 2.0 system.

Using the Extras Drawer's Interface for Icon Management

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This section covers the following topics:

creating cursors that iterate over the icons in the Extras Drawer

changing an icon's information

creating script and soup icons

supporting the soupervisor mechanism

To accomplish some of these tasks, you need to send messages to the Extras
Drawer. Use this code to get a reference to the Extras Drawer:

GetRoot().extrasDrawer