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CHAPTER 8
Newton Services
Preferences 8-31
Application Preferences 8
Applications provide access to their preference settings through the Info
picker (see “Info Picker” on page 4-24). When a user chooses Prefs from an
Info picker, the application displays a preferences slip in which the user can
see and change application-specific preference settings. Figure 8-27 shows
the preferences slips for some built-in applications.
Figure 8-27 A preferences slip contains application-specific settings
If your application stores data items, its Preferences slip should aid users in
managing data by including a checkbox for setting the storage location of
new items. This checkbox should have a label similar to “Always store new
items internally,” where the word items is replaced by the application’s
particular type of item. This check box helps to mitigate the problem users
commonly have of managing where their data is stored.