Inside This Issuecontinued on page 21Volume II, Number 3 June 1996gy gy Newton Technolo J O U R N A L®Communications TechnologyNew TechnologyCommunic

June 1996 Newton Technology Journal10Today, the definition of “work environment” is rapidly changing. People areroaming farther and farther from thei

party Ethernet drivers and Ethernet access cards within the next year.Fax send and receive. Full fax support is part of our strategy to providemore c

June 1996 Newton Technology Journal12Motorola NewsCard) and two-way pagers (the Motorola Tango). Devicedevelopers can write additional drivers for ne

Newton Technology Journal June 199613The NewtApp framework is a collection of system-supplied protos whichcan be combined to form a complete applicati

June 1996 Newton Technology Journal14styles for your application.Another step before you begin is to sketch out your data structure andhow you want th

Newton Technology Journal June 199615symbol slot in that dataDef. See the Newton Programmer’s Guide formore information on the required slots for dat

June 1996 Newton Technology Journal16The Default LayoutFor the default layout in the application, use newtLayout,newtPageLayoutor newtRollLayout. For

these slot views include a label and can pop-up lists of potential values. Themiscellaneous slot views include the newtEditViewand thenewtCheckBox.Sl

June 1996 Newton Technology Journal18Techniques for writing faster code are always of interest to NewtonScriptdevelopers. Faster implementations open

and synchronizes the children views of P to match the stepChildrenarray. Specifically, any child view whose template is no longer in thestepChildren

June 1996 Newton Technology Journal2Same Time,Same Place,New StuffMany of you will be reading this issue of theNewton Technology Journal from your sea

June 1996 Newton Technology Journal20actual difference of 4K versus 1K.USING A SIMPLE PROTO AND AviewDrawScriptWITH CACHINGThough faster, the simple p

Newton Technology Journal June 199621As with picture caching, using a bit map cache does not slow down theapplication much as it opens. This implemen

June 1996 Newton Technology Journal22INTRODUCTIONQuality does makes a difference. It makes a difference to your customers andultimately to your botto

Newton Technology Journal June 199623The change should be code-reviewed by another development engineer.The developer making the change should write a

June 1996 Newton Technology Journal24represented, but don’t go overboard on the details. Keep the feature listupdated to reflect the current state of

Newton Technology Journal June 19963configuration of your links, and a communications tool that you use withyour endpoints to perform communications o

June 1996 Newton Technology Journal4Then, when you call the InetGrabLink function in your application,you pass it the name (symbol) of your callback f

Newton Technology Journal June 19965if err then beginprint("link failed"); // handle the error:endGrabLink(err); // end connect attemptendel

June 1996 Newton Technology Journal6InetPortNumbera value as shown in Table 1-1 when sending the localport option with a Bind request:Table 1-1: Local

Newton Technology Journal June 19967type: 'option,opCode: opGetCurrent,result: nil,form: 'template,data: {arglist:[0, // host addr - byte 10

June 1996 Newton Technology Journal8• the DNSGetMailServerNameFromDomainNamefunction translates a domain name into the domain name for a mailserver t

Newton Technology Journal June 19969know how to use Newton communications endpoints to send and receivedata, then you already know how to use the Inet