Re: [NTLK] Newton Formulas

From: Eric L. Strobel (fyzycyst_at_comcast.net)
Date: Wed May 28 2003 - 07:14:20 PDT


on 05/28/03 10:04 AM, Victor Rehorst at victor_at_newtontalk.net wrote:

>> And I'll reiterate my call for someone knowledgeable to PLEASE give
>> serious
>> thought to coming up with a "Complete Idiot's Guide to Programming
>> Formulas".
>
> Well, the likely reason that no one has written this is because there isn't
> really an API for the Formulas roll. To quote the Newton Programmers Guide
> page 19-36 (PDF 710):
>
> "The RegFormulas function adds a panel to the Formulas roll. There is no proto
> tailored for use as a Formulas panel. Instead, you should attempt to make your
> panel look and act like the system-supplied panels. For an example of a
> template with the look of the built-in Formulas panels, see the DTS sample
> code related to the Prefs and Formulas rolls."
>
> So basicially you can create any protoFloatNGo, compile it into an auto part
> package, and then register it in Formulas with RegFormulas (which is likely
> descriped in the Newton Programmers Reference somewhere)

And the lack of almost any intelligible English in your reply also
illustrates the difficulty of such a guide, I'd guess... :-)

- Eric.

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