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Why is it useful
If you have a large area of storage (eg a 32 Mb Card (or more!!)) you tend to
fill them with many many packages. Most are kept in a frozen state to save heap.
The down side of having so many packages on the Newton is that the extras drawers
tend to take longer to display because of all the added items. One way to speed
display is to reduce the number of packages to display. This can be done by
only displaying packages from particular cards/internal stores. However, another
way would be to display only frozen or unfrozen packages. This would be useful
for routine use of the Newton, where frozen material is filtered out - at least
in particular folders.
[NOTE - Extras
Plus - by Stand Alone software adds an index to Extras, speeds up extras
display (with icons off), and adds other nice functions]
How to do it
Two ways are suggested -
= EITHER =
Add
an option "frozen" and "unfrozen" to the popup menu at the top of the extras
window (below the folder list, and above the store list). These would be selected
in combination with particular selected stores, and would be unselected when
"all stores" is selected.
= OR =
Add
a button to the extras minibutton bar - tapping it would toggle between show/hiding
frozen packages. Tap and holding would toggle between show/hiding UNfrozen packages.
I prefer the second option, even though it's less 'Newton-like', because I think the first method of selecting stores is cumbersome. Also it would be useful if the show/hide status was linked to particular folders in extras rathe, than being universal, and was remembered by extras.
This
function is part of a more extensive idea
called "Extra Assistance"
What you need and where to get it
This project is not under development
Who is in charge of this project
No one