Creating and Using User Protos
viewBounds
slot overridden or not. Since NTK can't know, it simply doesn't do anything--no slots are added to templates protoing from user protos. Thus, all user protos inherit all of their slots (except the _proto
slot) from the proto. You simply have to take the additional step and add a viewBounds
slot into the templates you want to move or resize.
However, if the user proto has no viewBounds
, NTK doesn't know where to display the template. It therefore adds a viewBounds
to the template to deal with the situation.
viewBounds
slot can't be moved or resized graphically. It does not matter whether it protos from a system or user proto. You can even mimic this effect with templates based upon protoStaticText. Just remove the viewBounds
slot from the template; like magic you can no longer move it around.
An online version of Programming for the Newton using Macintosh, 2nd ed. ©1996, 1994, Julie McKeehan and Neil Rhodes.
Last modified: 1 DEC 1996