
General Design Guidelines
Keep It Small
Avoid creeping featurism. Users will not want your application if it is not small enough to easily fit on either the Newton or a PC card. Nor is it acceptable to require a 2 Mb card for each application (unless you plan to give the user a card). Cards are expensive, and users will shy away from applications that take up a lot of space. Further, attempting to fit large applications in memory or on small cards is very frustrating. The moral should be clear: keep your applications small, ideally under 200K. Unless you want crabby customers, do not create 1 MB applications.
An online version of Programming for the Newton using Macintosh, 2nd ed. ©1996, 1994, Julie McKeehan and Neil Rhodes.
Last modified: 1 DEC 1996