NewtonScript, Newton Toolkit, and the Newton
_parent
and _proto
slots.
The _proto
slot of a view always points directly to its template, which was created in NTK (there may be more protos after that in the chain). The _parent
slot of a base view points to the root view on the Newton.
FIGURE 4.9 : Views, templates, and protos.
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