Hints for Using NTK Effectively

Extras as a Backdrop Application

If you make the Extras drawer the backdrop application on the Newton (rather than the Notes application), you'll reduce the number of times you need to open the Extras drawer. Opening the Toolkit App closes the Extras drawer; opening your application closes the Extras drawer. By making the Extras drawer the backdrop application, it won't be slamming shut all the time.

To do this, open the Extras drawer and choose Memory Info from the info button (see FIGURE 2.38). Then, tap the Extras radio button in the Memory Info slip (see FIGURE 2.39). Close the slip. Then, as shown in FIGURE 2.40, the Extra drawer will be the backdrop application (full-screen with no close box).

FIGURE 2.38 : The info picker in the Extras drawer.


FIGURE 2.39 : The Memory Info slip in the Extras drawer.


FIGURE 2.40 : The Extras drawer as the backdrop application.


An online version of Programming for the Newton using Macintosh, 2nd ed. ©1996, 1994, Julie McKeehan and Neil Rhodes.

Last modified: 1 DEC 1996