User Guide

CHAPTER 7
Routing and Communications
Routing Incoming Items 7-27
action from the Tag picker, which pops up when the user taps the Tag button.
The Tag picker lists only actions that apply to at least one of the selected
items. Figure 7-20 shows a sample Tag button and Tag picker.
Figure 7-20 The Tag picker disposes of currently selected In Box items
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The Tag picker includes the Put Away action if an item the user has selected
can be transferred from the In Box to another installed Newton application.
Each application registers with the system the types of items it can accept
from the In Box. For example, the built-in Notepad application accepts text
items such as e-mail messages in addition to regular Notepad items.
Independent of applications’ abilities to accept items from the In Box, each
transport can include a method for putting away items it has received. If a
transport can put away an item the user has selected, the Tag picker includes
a Put Away action whether or not any applications have registered to accept
that type of item.
When a user chooses to put away an item, the In Box displays a slip identify-
ing the target application. If there are multiple targets—multiple applications
that can accept the item and a transport with a put-away method—the slip
includes a picker label that the user can tap to pop up a list picker from which
to choose one of the targets. The slip also gives the user the option of having
that item deleted from the In Box or having a copy kept there.
If no application has registered to accept an item the user has selected, and
the transports that received the selected items do not know how to put away
items, the Tag picker does not include the Put Away action. For example, none
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