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GLOSSARY

GL-5

part A unit of software—either code or data—

held in a part frame. The format of the part is

identiﬁed by a four-character identiﬁer called its

type or its part code.

part frame The top-level frame that holds an

application, book, or auto part.

PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card

International Association. This acronym is used

to describe the memory cards used by the

Newton PDA. Newton memory cards follow the

PCMCIA standards.

persona The permanent internal description of

an individual person that uses a particular

Newton PDA, or a particular public image of the

Newton owner. The owner is the obvious

example, but there can be many others.

Choosing a persona sets up information such as

name, title, birthday, phone numbers, e-mail

addresses, and so on. The plural is “personae.”

picker A type of Newton view that pops up

and contains a list of items. The user can select

an item by tapping it. This type of view closes

when the user taps an item or taps outside the

list without making a selection.

picture A saved sequence of drawing

operations that can be played back later.

polygon A shape deﬁned by a sequence of

points representing the polygon’s vertices,

connected by straight lines from one point to

the next.

pop-up See picker.

project The collected ﬁles and speciﬁcations

that NTK uses to build a package that can be

downloaded and executed on

the Newton.

proto A frame referenced through another

frame’s _proto slot. With regard to views, a

proto is not intended to be directly instantiated—

you reference the proto from a template. The

system supplies several view protos, which an

application can use to implement user interface

elements such as buttons, input ﬁelds, and so on.

protocol An agreed-upon set of conventions

for communications between two computers,

such as the protocol used to communicate

between a desktop computer and a Newton device.

raw ink See ink.

receiver The frame that was sent a message.

The receiver for the invocation of a function

object is accessible through the pseudo-variable

self. See also implementor.

recognized text Ink words processed by the

recognition system. Ink drawn by the user is

converted into recognized text when the user has

selected “Text” in the Recognition Preferences

slip or after deferred recognition takes place.

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