The Composition of Stationery

The viewDef

The viewDef is a template responsible for displaying and editing the data of this type. One dataDef can have many different viewDefs associated with it. Imagine a dataDef for checks from a checkbook. There are a number of different ways to view a check:

While each of these views of the check would be a separate viewDef, they would each reference the same dataDef.


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

Last modified: 1 DEC 1996