Stationery

What Is Stationery?

In a stationery-less world, the code and templates used for editing and displaying data are embedded in the application and available only to that application. The idea behind stationery was to change this. The code and the template responsible for editing data are registered with the system. Now they are available anywhere and anytime that kind of data needs editing.

An Example of Stationery in the Notepad
An Example of Stationery in the Names Application
An Example of Stationery in the Out Box
Architecture of an Application that Supports Stationery
The Composition of Stationery
How Stationery Interacts with the System

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

Last modified: 1 DEC 1996