Apple 2 manual Standard Newton Pickers, Creating New Items

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Pickers

Users can also scroll overview pickers with the universal scroll arrows. In addition, users can scroll overview pickers by dragging from the middle of the picker past the top or bottom of the picker.

Creating New Items

When the item a user wants is not included in an overview picker, the user doesn’t have to close the picker and go to another application to create the item. Users can create entirely new items without leaving an overview picker that has a New button. (If you don’t want users to be able to create new items from within an overview picker, you can suppress the picker’s New button.)

To create a new item, a user taps the New button at the bottom of the overview picker. A slip appears in which the user enters just the information needed for the picker. The new item is added to the picker and to the other information in Newton storage. For example, tapping the New button in an overview picker that lists names and fax numbers would bring up a slip in which the user enters a first name, last name, and fax number. The name and fax number would be added to the overview picker and to the Names File data. Later the user could use the Names File application to fill in additional information for the new person.

Standard Newton Pickers

A typical application has some of the following standard Newton pickers pop up from buttons on its status bar or on separator bars: the Info picker, New picker, Show picker, Action picker, and People picker. This section describes all of those standard Newton pickers.

Additional pickers defined by the Newton system are described in other parts of this book. The Keyboard, Recognition, and Alpha Sorter pickers are described in Chapter 6, “Data Input.” The Action picker is described in Chapter 7, “Routing and Communications.” The Filing, Folder, Find, and Assist pickers are described in Chapter 8, “Newton Services.”

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