Programming for the Newton Using Windows (Book)
A comprehensive book explaining how to create Newton applications using NewtonScript on Microsoft Windows-based computers.
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Artifact Details
AP Professional
Julie McKeehan, Neil Rhodes
United States
English
1997
Perfect bound black and white book with color covers (with enclosed CD).
Table of Contents:
- Forward by Walter Smith
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction
- Using NTK
- Fundamentals of NewtonScript
- Inheritance in NewtonScript
- View Attributes
- View System and Messages
- Protos
- Debugging Your Application
- Newton Data Storage
- NewtApp
- Stationery
- Routing
- NTK Reference
- Application Issues
- Where to Go From Here
- Index
7.375" x 9.25" (440 pages)
0-12-484830-3
a50376a57d98f5fd
1997
2020-07-04
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History
Programming for the Newton Using Windows, subtitled Software Development with NewtonScript, is a 1997 developer's guide by Julie McKeehan and Neil Rhodes, published by AP Professional, the professional imprint of Academic Press.1 The second edition was rewritten from cover to cover to teach the essentials of programming for Newton 2.0, building Newton software from the Windows platform with hands-on training in NewtonScript.1
The book targeted Newton 2.0, the operating-system revision Apple Computer announced in October 1995 for shipment that December, initially on the MessagePad 120.2 Apple designed Newton 2.0 to integrate Newton PDAs with Windows and Mac OS personal computers, and said the new operating system would be accompanied by more flexible development tools for programmers working on either Windows or Mac OS machines.2
Newton applications were written in NewtonScript using Apple's Newton Toolkit, an object-oriented development system that had shipped since August 1993 and ran on Mac OS computers.3 The book's enclosed CD-ROM carried sample code, solutions to all of its coding examples and exercises, and QuickTime movies that worked each solution through from start to finish in Newton Toolkit.1 Following along required a Newton 2.0 device and a serial cable to connect it to a Windows PC.1
The book's coverage spanned NewtonScript and Stationery, Newton's data storage and view systems, and debugging with the Inspector.1 Apple offered Newton developers technical training through Apple Developer University.4 McKeehan and Rhodes were external faculty there and principals of Calliope Enterprises, a Macintosh and NewtonScript programming and training firm, and had earlier written Wireless for the Newton and the first edition of Programming for the Newton.1
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Footnotes
- AP Professional, Programming for the Newton Using Windows (Book) (image scan), 1997
- Apple Computer, Apple Announces New Newton Operating System, October 20, 1995
- Apple Computer, Apple Announces Enhanced Newton Toolkit, Reduced Prices, July 11, 1995
- Apple Computer, Developers Demonstrate Strength of New Newton 2.0 Operating System at COMDEX, November 13, 1995
Oral History
Media
Q&A with Walter Smith and James Joaquin
Walter Smith is one of the earliest and youngest Newton team members. He is the inventor of the Wallyscript, or Newtonscript programming language, as well as other aspects of the Newton. A few years ago he purchased a Newton museum, so he has lots of great development stuff from the old days.
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