Examples

Changing an Entry in an Existing Soup

Here is an example of changing an entry in the Names soup. A QuickTime movie of this example is available. First we get a union soup for Names, create a cursor, placing it on an entry and printing it out in the Inspector.

namesSoup := GetUnionSoup ("Names");
namesCursor := namesSoup:Query(nil);
anEntry := namesCursor:Entry();
Print(anEntry);
#440E875  {class: person, 
           version: 2, 
           sorton: "Christie Agatha", 
           address2: NIL, 
           addresses: [], 
           pagers: [], 
           address: NIL, 
           postal_code: "", 
           cardType: 1, 
           anniversary: NIL, 
           region: NIL, 
           _modTime: 48616547, 
           city: NIL, 
           email: NIL, 
           bdayEvent: NIL, 
           title: NIL, 
           country: "England", 
           name: {honorific: NIL, first: "Agatha",
            last: "Christie", title: NIL, 
            class: person}, 
           company: "", 
           emailAddrs: [], 
           companies: [], 
           notes: NIL, 
           anniversaryEvent: NIL, 
           names: [], 
           phones: [NIL], 
           _uniqueID: 362, 
           bday: NIL, 
           emailPassword: NIL
}

Now, open the Names application and scroll to that entry. In the following code, we change some of the values in the entry and then send the EntryChangeXMit message:

anEntry.city := "London";
anEntry.country := "England";
EntryChangeXmit(anEntry, '|ProgNewton:Calliope|);

You should see your entry updated on screen as well.

An online version of Programming for the Newton using Macintosh, 2nd ed. Š1996, 1994, Julie McKeehan and Neil Rhodes.

Last modified: 1 DEC 1996