Apple Newton Programmer’s Newton 2.0 (for Newton 2.0) - Manual (Page 302)

C H A P T E R 8
Text and Ink Input and Display
8-10 Using Text
IMPORTANT
You store view templates (not view objects) in the
viewChildren array of an edit view. ▲
Paragraph Views 8
The clParagraphView class displays text or accepts text input. It includes the
following features:
■ Text recognition
■ Text correction
■ Text editing, including scrubbing, selection, copying to the clipboard, pasting
from the clipboard, and other gestures, including duplicating, as controlled by
the setting of the
viewFlags slot.
■ Automatic word-wrapping.
■ Support for the caret gesture, which adds a space or splits a word.
■ Clipping of text that won’t fit in the view. (An ellipsis is shown to indicate text
beyond what is visible.)
■ Use of ink and different text fonts (styles) within the same paragraph.
■ Tab-stop alignment of text.
■ Automatic resizing to accommodate added text (when this view is enclosed in a
clEditView ). This feature is controlled by the vCalculateBounds flag in
the viewFlags slot.
■ Automatic addition of new words written near the view when this view is
enclosed in a
clEditView and caret insertion writing mode is disabled.
The slots of clParagraphView are described in “Paragraph View
(clParagraphView)” (page 7-15) in Newton Programmer’s Reference.
Note that you don’t need to create paragraph views yourself if you are accepting
user input inside a
clEditView . Just provide a clEditView and when the user
writes in it, the view automatically creates paragraph views to hold text.
The following is an example of a template defining a view of the
clParagraphView class:
dateSample := {...
viewClass: clParagraphView,
viewBounds: {left:50, top:50, right:200, bottom:70},
viewFlags: vVisible+vReadOnly,
viewFormat: vfFillWhite,
viewJustify: oneLineOnly,
text: "January 24, 1994",