Apple 2 manual Action Picker Contents

C H A P T E R 7

Routing and Communications

In a view where an Action button can only affect one data item of several that may be displayed (perhaps by scrolling the view), there should be an Action button above each item, at the right side of the view. Generally, such a view has a separator bar above each data item, and an Action button should be at the right end of each separator bar. For example, each note in the Notepad application has its own Action button, which applies just to that note. Figure 7-6 shows an example of Action buttons above each data item in a view.

Figure 7-6An Action button above an item affects only that item

Action button on a separator bar

Action Picker Contents

An Action picker lists the routing actions available for the particular class of data that is currently selected. There are two types of routing actions that can appear in an Action picker:

■Routing actions corresponding to transports installed in the Newton device, such as Print, Fax, Beam, and Mail

■Application-defined actions, such as Delete and Duplicate, that do not involve the In/Out Box or a transport

Actions based on transports that work with the type of data being routed are listed at the top of an Action picker. Application-defined action commands appear at the bottom of an Action picker, below a separator line. Figure 7-7 illustrates the two parts of an Action picker.

7-10 Routing Outgoing Items