From: Laurent Daudelin (laurent_daudelin_at_fanniemae.com)
Date: Thu Sep 26 2002 - 10:46:15 PDT
On 26/09/02 13:33, "eric engle" <engleerica_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I would like, if possible, to find or develop a very
> simple text collector for the newton.
>
> Basically I need to collect four to ten fields
>
> Name, number, name, number, number year
>
> I tried playing with appgen on a 2100 and got nowhere.
>
> I do not even know how to get newton script to save
> values in fields - i.e. I am a newtonscript newbie
> luser.
>
> I can get newtonscript to make an app, and even to get
> it to make a field - but then I need to save the field
> and be able to export the data, and also to make as
> many "cards" as needed.
>
> Why not just use notepad? Because it is too easy to
> forget things like "publisher", "year of publication",
> "page number"... i.e. it is for a bibliography.
>
> And the data must be exportable.
>
> Ideas? All I need is a few fields and labels. Maybe it
> would be better done as stationery than as an app? But
> I know even less about making stationery than making
> apps. I tried playing with newtcard and am sort of
> unimpressed - it acted very beta. I would prefer to do
> this in newtonscript.
>
> I have succesfully converted a colleague to the newton
> - he could also use such a program, and others might
> also find a bibliography program useful.
>
> Ideas?
>
> Thanking you in advance
>
Try Notion.
-Laurent.
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