Contents:
What's New:
- 24 Apr 2018: Newt's Cape is now freeware.
see regnewtscape.htm for unexpiring versions of Newt's Cape,
including Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian versions;
the password for the .zip archive files is: turkeylurky (not needed for .pkg)
(Thanks to those of you who registered over the years. I wish I had made these files public ages ago...)
- 27 Feb 2002: Newt's Cape registration is now only $20 ($10 for a student)
- 2001
- 6 Nov: UnzipBMP plugin extracts files from .zip files, and converts/displays .bmp image files
- 5 Mar: Newt's Cape 2.1e-2 public evaluation beta version available (detailed changes);
note: if you have an earlier expired public version (e.g., 2.0r2), this allows another 45 days
- 2000
- 5 Sep: PilotDOC 1.0d2 plugin displays Palm Pilot DOC text files and ImageViewer graphics
- 22 May: Korean version of NC Help doc (thanks to Vincent Lee)
- 17 Mar: removed most old (2.0a2, 1.5, 1.3) Newt's Cape info/links
- 13 Mar:
AudInbox 1.0c-2
plugin transfers audio files(.wav,.aiff,.au) to play with
SimpleMail 4.0's
Audio Decoder/Stationery extensions;
updated Korean info and screenshot
- 3 Feb: ModSaver 1.0a-2
plugin transfers/saves MOD format music files for use with
ModPlayer
- 23 Jan: HTMList 1.0k2
- 1999
- 15 Nov: updated the Newt's Cape examples page with
recent, plus five more hybrid JavaScript/NewtonScript examples:
Pico Fermi Bagels:
[2.x] MasterMind-like number guessing game,
Ellie's CountDown
[2.x] time until birthdays, holidays, Y2K;
Eval Expr
[1.x/2.x] evaluate JavaScript/NewtonScript expressions;
Ellie's Europe map and
Ellie's Asia map:
[2.x] learn countries and capitals
- 11 Nov: monthmtg.htm
[2.x example] export a month of meetings/events from Dates application to Notes as an HTML table
- 7 Nov: clocks.htm
[1.x/2.x example] updates current time as text, analog, (2.x only: digital clock);
JavaScript included for desktop browsers;
pkginfo.htm [1.x/2.x example] summarizes information
about Newton packages to Notes (2.x only: select folder/store)
- 10 Sep: remalarm.htm [2.x example] list/remove alarms
(potentially useful if you schedule items and then remove that folder);
- 3 Sep: Hemlock 1.2.2 search tool
- 16 Aug: Peter Rand contributed a series of Newt's Cape screenshots:
- 6 Aug: JPEG attachments received by SimpleMail 3.3 can be viewed with Newt's Cape:
- Choose the JPEG part of a message in the InBox and ignore the 'no stationery'
warning. (The 'Part' picker in SimpleMail's InBox message
view actually switches attachments into the body of a message)
- select File:Open Inbox in Newt's Cape; it looks in the body for likely JPEG candidates
and uses your specified resolution (i:General:Res.) -- thx to Peter Rand for testing/summarizing this
- 23 Jun: added more items to the problems/questions page;
more user comments;
JPEG 1.0f-2
- 19 Mar:
Sloup & IrDA info: send desktop HTML docs via IR?
one user reports using IrDA to transfer HTML pages from iMac to Newt's Cape (via Sloup);
- 26 Feb: updated version of Peter Rand's help document/book
- 25 Feb: Newt's Cape 2.0r-2 public beta (and related plugins, docs) available!
various new/updated NewtonScript examples:
lunabkmk.htm (export LunaSuite bookmarks to Notes or Newt's Cape);
tibetjpg.htm (convert/copy "Tibet" JPEGs to Newt's Cape's cache);
soupdate.htm (remove Inbox entries before a specified date);
times.htm (date/time example, including "Swatch Internet time");
ioboxfix.htm (check/set preference whether InOut Box opens initially to Inbox or Outbox);
makemap.htm (creates HTML source for overview/detailed maps for a city or latitude/longitude)
Newt's Cape creates Newton books with text, graphics, hypertext links,
tables and embedded forms from HTML (HyperText Markup Language) documents
in your Notepad, Inbox, other applications, over a serial connection, or internet
(Newton OS (NOS) >=2.0;
Newton Internet Enabler (NIE) >=1.1).
So, you can use Newt's Cape as a book creation tool and/or web browser.
Since you can embed NewtonScript objects and methods in documents, you can
also think of Newt's Cape as a form or application development environment.
brief FAQ. Complete information in the documentation below.
Keywords: books, HTML, web, forms, NewtonScript.
Feature Summary
- compatible with 1.x and 2.x MessagePads (some features not available on older models)
- process HTML source documents from web (2.x via NIE), Notepad, Paperback,
Newtworks (2.1), WabumiUni (2.x Japanese), Inbox, or desktop (serial/ADSP connection)
- include GIF graphics (gray-scale, animated) via TCP (NIE), JPEG with plugin; from HexPaint;
or Mac (GIF,PICT)/Windows(GIF,BMP) with Newt's Cape Graphics Converter (NCGC) utility (for registered users)
- install packages from the web, transfer files to helper apps
- reorganized user interface, faster TCP transfer, creates larger books, better heap usage
- create forms with text fields, radio buttons, checkboxes, images, pickers and buttons
- customize form behavior and objects (e.g., sliders, date pickers) via NewtonScript
- create tables with text, graphics, form objects
- customize appearance of many tags via Appearance options
- create Newton books in different screen sizes: portrait or help (>=1.x), landscape (>=2.0), full(2.1)
- links work within books, between books, can retrieve URLs via NIE or email proxy,
or run Newton applications or embedded NewtonScript
- import/export HTML from/to NewtWorks(2.1); export formatted books to Newtworks
- save books as packages with NewtPack plugin (for registered users); combine multiple, smaller books into a large book
- use proxy servers; access sites that require password authentication or use cookies
- versions available in Japanese, German,
Chinese, French, Russian, Korean
- documentation available as HTML or Newton books
Highlights of some recent features:
- (in 2.1e-2 -- since 2.0r-2)
- download and run Java applets in .jar files
via Waba VM/subset
- additional page sizes and font mappings
- parser fixes; new scheduling options
- numerous other fixes, preferences
- (in 2.0r-2 -- since 2.0a-2)
- Preference Sets (saving/switching groups of preferences)
- API fixes to support Hemlock,
an internet search tool for the Newton that searches multiple internet search engines, news organizations,
on-line shopping centers, even top-ten lists using user-specified
search terms, putting the results in a scrollable list similar to the
results in the Newton's Find panel. To search the web, Hemlock uses
Sherlock™ .src.hqx files (same as MacOS 8.5).
- improved handling of FRAMEs
- View:Load Links (load a selected group of links)
- better management of Authenticate hosts/names/passwords
- initial keyboard support
- better conversion of embedded, extended ISO- characters
- better display of multi-style, large paragraphs
- (in 2.0a-2 -- since 1.5)
- conversion/display of JPEG graphics (via JPEG plugin)
- exporting book content as formatted NewtWorks documents or HTML source (via HTMList plugin)
- access to cache items and bookmarks via new overview; organize items in folders;
batch process items, e.g., save to NewtWorks; schedule items in a folder for later update
For further details, see documentation below (also complete revision history).
Newt's Cape, along with associated documents and tools, is shareware --
registered users receive additional documentation, examples, tools and support.
Newt's Cape and the files listed here are
© 1995-2017. S. Weyer and G. Simon, All Rights Reserved Worldwide.
Decoding Newt's Cape "version" (in About), e.g.,:
- 2.1
- main version 2.1
- a-z (a lowercase letter)
- if present, beta version, e.g., e
- N
- if present, Native (RISC) code used for several methods (1.x)
- -2
- NOS 2.x only. This version runs only on 2.x Newtons,
and any packages it creates via NewtPack are 2.x-only.
- (NIE)
- contains NIE code that utilizes Newton Internet Enabler (if installed)
- ~J, ~G, ~C, ~F, ~R, ~K
- local language version for interface and possible data encoding,
e.g., Japanese, German,
Chinese, French, Russian, Korean
New (beta) versions are generally available only to registered users, but
if there are important interim bug fixes and we've got time, beta versions may appear here.
Newt's Cape 2.1e-2, a reasonably stable, public beta 2.x-only version is available.
The Newt's Cape reference documentation has been updated --
drafts are available as HTML files in .zip archives;
it also includes 3 "advanced" docs -- formerly registered-user-only.
Since some of these are quite large (esp. tagindex.htm, userintf.htm),
I would recommend browsing these from desktop, or download the
already-converted (1.x compatible) Newton book versions (individual .pkg or .zip archive)
[books correspond to version 2.0r]. Start with introtoc.htm; summary:
- introtoc.htm [12K]
- NC Intro: Introduction; TOC
(book [80K])
- othappr.htm [9K]
- NC Appr: Other Applications and Approaches
(book [67K])
- userintf.htm [89K]
- NC User: Newt's Cape User Interface
(book [251K])
- setup.htm [22K]
- NC Config: Setup, Usage Issues (book [65K])
- htmlsyn.htm [8K]
- NC HTML: HTML Syntax (book [25K])
- head.htm [14K]
- NC Head: HEAD tags (book [42K])
- bodyhxbl.htm [8K]
- NC Body1: BODY tags: headings, blocks
(book [27K])
- bodyliph.htm [16K]
- NC Body2: BODY tags: lists, phrases
(book [57K])
- bodyagt.htm [25K]
- NC Body3: BODY tags: anchor, graphics, tables
(book [81K])
- bodyform.htm [15K]
- NC Form: BODY tags: forms (book [94K])
- othtools.htm [17K]
- NC Tools: Other Tools: NewtPack, Sloup, Newt's Cape Graphics Converter
(book [57K])
- nssyn.htm [8K]
- NC NS Syn: Embedding NewtonScript in HTML, HTML in NewtonScript
(book [28K])
- advmeta.htm [20K]
- Advanced: META; A and IMG URLs (book [56K])
- advform.htm [18K]
- Advanced: FORM URLs (book [54K])
- advapi.htm [27K]
- Advanced: APIs (book [93K])
- charent.htm [11K]
- NC Chars: Character Entities (book [50K])
- regplans.htm [7K]
- NC RegPln: Register; Plans (book [23K])
- tagindex.htm [40K]
- NC Index: Tag and Topic Index (book [192K])
What's different between this version and what's available to registered users?
This version expires 45 days after installation; if you had installed 2.0r-2 earlier and
allowed it to expire, you'll now have a second chance to evaluate Newt's Cape.
Note: "RouteBook" is now included in HTMList, so it should be removed if you had installed it earlier.
New, improved versions of Newt's Cape, tools and plugins are available to registered users,
e.g., NCGC (Newt's Cape Graphic Converter desktop tools),
Encoding plugin (for converting Chinese,Japanese,Russian,Korean pages),
Newt's Cape versions with user interfaces in other languages (Chinese,French,German,Japanese,Korean,Russian),
1.x versions, and 2.x versions that create 1.x compatible books.
Description of files
- Newt's Cape
- the main application
- JPEG
- plugin for converting JPEG graphics
- HTMList
- plugin saves Notes Outlines or Checklists as HTML,
or as Newt's Cape bookmarks; now also saves formatted text in Notes, NewtWorks or books as HTML,
and saves formatted text/graphics in books as a formatted NewtWorks document;
this also included earlier separate "RouteBook" functionality: adds "text routing" to books,
e.g., Mail. for NOS 2.1, this would include Beam and Speak (if Macintalk is installed),
and the button also appears in help books. Be sure to look at both HTMList
and RouteBook documentation.
- NewtPack
- plugin to save the current temporary book as a package (in Extras)
- NC_HELP
- Peter Rand has drafted a help document/book/introduction
to Newt's Cape: NC_HELP; please send praise/comments/suggestions directly to
Peter;
available as HTML [70K]
and as Newton book .pkg and .rtf file (below).
- ref docs
- Newt's Cape complete reference documentation in 18 .htm files;
see Peter's NC_HELP document for introduction/quick reference
- Sloup
- install for desktop transfer of HTML files, i.e., File:Open Desktop
- AudInbox
- plugin transfers audio files(.wav,.aiff,.au) to play with
SimpleMail 4.0's
Audio Decoder/Stationery extensions
- ModSaver
- plugin transfers/saves MOD format music files for use with
ModPlayer
- PilotDOC
- plugin displays Palm Pilot DOC text files and ImageViewer graphics
- examples
- Newt's Cape examples page
The following files may be distributed from other sites,
if Newt's Cape, its plugins and documentation are all included,
if there is a link to this page -- and you tell me your URL so I can link here.
.pkg
.zip
Remember that Newt's Cape is shareware, you should Register
it after evaluation (otherwise, it expires after 45 days).
If you want to try Newt's Cape on a 1.x Newton, e.g., accessing HTML pages from Notes or Inbox,
here is a public version of Newt's Cape 1.5 (this includes docs as HTML):
If you have problems, be sure to check the known problems page
and bug reporting procedure before emailing Steve.
For Registered Users
If you register you also receive:
- confirmation via email
- with information about downloading
- versions/tools
- access to latest/additional versions of documentation and software
- Chinese
- screen shot
- Thanks to Joseph Chen.
- French
- Thanks to Martin Jean
- German
- screen shot
- Thanks to Reinhold Schoeb.
German version of Sloup also available.
For text, data, package transfer, Unix/Linux users should look at
NewtonLink
- Japanese
- MP2K screen,
MP130 screen
- Thanks to Shinobu Yamada. It display labels and messages in Japanese; you can
transfer encoded files -- select encoding under Options.
For cool, funny, useful applets or information for Newton users in Japan,
see MarbleDevelopment.
- Korean
- screen shot
- Rand NC_HELP doc .rtf (FAQ section)
- Thanks to Vincent Lee
- Russian
- Newt's Cape translations by Evgueni A. Natalenko.
Translation tools and fonts provided by MacCentre, Russia.
Thanks to Dmitry V. Girenko for his enthusiastic help.
Cyrillic Encoding module by Joseph Chen
- Newt's Cape Graphic Converter
- Macintosh: convert GIF and PICT to Newton PICT and bitmap(icon) formats
- Windows (32-bit): convert GIF and BMP to Newton PICT and bitmap formats
- BitSound
- display graphics and play sounds on your Newton
- NewtPack
- plugin to save books as packages directly on your Newton
- Monaco9
- font for better-looking, fixed-width PRE text
- additional documentation and examples
- e.g., Advanced Customization and NewtonScript
- advmeta.htm
- NC AdvMETA: Advanced NewtonScript: META; A and IMG URLs
- advform.htm
- NC AdvFORM: Advanced NewtonScript: FORM URLs, LINK.
- advapi.htm
- NC API: Newt's Cape's API (Application Program Interface)
- satisfaction
- priority for support and new features
- -guilt
- relief from shareware guilt
Shareware Registration is now
- $20.00 ($10 for a student)
- PayPal
If you know of "Newt's Cape aware" pages (i.e., work well on Newton
and take advantage of Newt's Cape), let me know -- I may include in the
Newt's Cape examples page.
If you have created and distributed a Newton book using Newt's Cape, be sure to include
a reference to Newt's Cape in your readme, and let us know about it so we can include it in the
list of books published with Newt's Cape.
- modem scripts/compatibility
- HelpURL [51K]
- NTK source code to create an about box that contain active URLs, and a dynamic help book from HTML
- HTML editors
- nHTML
- HTML creation utility. by Adam Tow
- converting PDF to HTML
- Adobe conversion info (via email or form)
- Gohtm.com converts Acrobat(.pdf), Rich Text(.rtf),
Word(.doc), Excel(.xls), PowerPoint(.ppt) files to HTML (and JPEG)
- GhostScript
- Web PDF Viewer SANFACE Software
- Java
- Waba for Newton
- Ghost Java Virtual Machine project
- news readers
- Paperboy from Standalone Software
- Ink Spot from DejaVu Software
- also read news via web-based sites: AltaVista search, www.dejanews.com
- email applications
- EnRoute (NetStrategy)
- Eudora (QualComm)
- SimpleMail
- web server!
- Newton Personal Data Sharing (NPDS)
- search
- Hemlock,
an internet search tool for the Newton that searches multiple internet search engines, news organizations,
on-line shopping centers, even top-ten lists using user-specified
search terms, putting the results in a scrollable list similar to the
results in the Newton's Find panel. To search the web, Hemlock uses
Sherlock™ .src.hqx files (same as MacOS 8.5)
- bookmark/URL managers
- pURL from Digital Objectives
- Shuffler: no longer available?
- xWord Buddy from Tactile
- transfers Crossword Puzzle files using Newt's Cape
- urlCop
- for dispatching different URLS, e.g., http:, ftp:, mailto:, etc. by Flash Sheridan
- other browsers
- PocketWeb 2.1 postcardware
- NewtWap WAP client
- Raissa: RSS reader news items in XML format
- ftp
- NewtFTP client
- ftpmail: email service (directions from Andrew Maier). using an email client
(like SimpleMail),
you can download a .pkg file from
public ftp servers (http)
public ftp servers (ftp).
For example, to retrieve Andrew's Easter.pkg,
you would write an e-mail to ftpmail@ftp.luth.se and put the following commands in the body
(Subject is ignored):
open misf67.cern.ch
cd pub/andrew/archive
mode binary
force mime
get Easter.pkg
quit
You will then receive
- an e-mail confirming your request
- an hour or two later, another e-mail which contains the software
- finally, an e-mail telling you that your request has been processed
- chat
- ChatBuddy IRC
- NewtJabber: ICQ,AIM,Yahoo; Jabber info
- pages with downloadable packages
- Mississippi Newton Interest Group
- book tools
- Librarian: turn book pages with power switch
- Steve's Newton page
- Newt Development Environment, tutorials, Sloup, Crypto, PkgInfo, PackType, Life, Sproing, GeoCnstr, Hanoi
