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C H A P T E R 5
Stationery
Using Stationery
5-9
The following example uses the constant
kSuperSymbol
as the value of the
superSymbol
slot. It is defined as follows in the
Extend Notes
Definition.f
file:
constant kSuperSymbol := 'notes;// Note's SuperSymbol
Once you have created an NTK layout, named the template
iouDataDef
, and
saved the file under the name
iouDataDef
, you may set the slots of the
iouDataDef
as follows:
Set
name
to
"IOU"
. This shows up in the New button's picker.
Set
superSymbol
to the constant
kSuperSymbol
. This stationery can
only be used by an application that has a matching value in the
newtApplication
base view's
superSymbol
slot.
Set
description
to
"An IOU entry"
. This string shows up in the
information box that appears when the user taps the icon on the left side of
the header, as shown in Figure 4-5 (page 4-9).
Set
symbol
to
kDataSymbol
.
Set
version
to
1
. This is an arbitrary stationery version number set at your
discretion.
Remove the
viewBounds
slot; it's not needed since this object is not a view.
There are a number of methods defined within the
newtStationery
proto that
you should override for your data type.
Defining DataDef Methods
5
The three methods
MakeNewEntry
,
StringExtract
, and
TextScript
are
illustrated in this section. You use the method
MakeNewEntry
to define the soup
entries for your dataDef; the method
StringExtract
is required by NewtApp
overview scripts to return text for display in the overview; and
TextScript
is
called by the routing interface to return a text description of your data.
The
MakeNewEntry
method returns a complete entry frame which will be added
to some (possibly unknown) application soup. You should use
MakeNewEntry
,
instead of the
FillNewEntry
method (which works in conjunction with the
NewtApp framework's
newtSoup.CreateBlankEntry
), when your stationery
is being defined as an auto part.
The example of
MakeNewEntry
used here defines the constant
kEntryTemplate
as a frame in which to define all the generic parts of the entry.
All the specific parts of the data definition are kept in a nested frame that has the
name of the data class symbol,
kDataSymbol
. By keeping the specific definitions
of your data grouped in a single nested frame and accessible by the class of the
data, you are assuring that your code will be reusable in other applications.
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