Current Notes 36

Posted on May 15th, 2008 by Paul Lefebvre

Software
REALbasic 2008 Release 2 - Mostly bug fixes, but a new Pair class was added.
Custom EditField - An amazing Canvas-based EditField.
Information
UUID Class - Generate UUID (GUID) on Mac OS X and Linux
Providing a Better Drag Image - Give your OS X apps more eye candy
Community
ARBP site update - Now built using Yuma!
Abandoning the Fantasy of […]

Current Notes 35

Posted on April 25th, 2008 by Paul Lefebvre

Software
SpellChecker - Add spell-checking to your REALbasic apps
Yuma Beta 5 - The updates keep coming; now the enterprise version is available
Information
REAL Software Changes Feedback System - They now use Joel Spolsky’s FogBugz
Community
A Visual Basic Programmer’s Review of REALbasic 2008 Release 1 - Summary: REALbasic is “a more than sufficient ‘upgrade’ to VB6′
Giving REALbasic Another Chance […]

Current Notes 34

Posted on April 16th, 2008 by Paul Lefebvre

Software
Monkeybread Software Tutorial Movies - Learn how to use the Monkeybread plugin
Information
Pretty-Printing XML - A useful tip for using XSLT to format your XML
Community
Thom McGrath joins REAL Software - Thom’s provided some useful stuff to the RB community. I’m sure he’ll be a great addition.
REAL World 2009 Dates - Announced: May 4-6, 2009
Is REALbasic […]

Current Notes 33

Posted on April 12th, 2008 by Paul Lefebvre

Software
Yuma Beta 4 - The updates keep coming for this fabulous way to do web development with REALbasic
PNG Mask Extractor - Extract Mask data from PNG files
MPCalc Plugin 3.0 - A multi-precision RPN calculator for REALbasic
Amalgam Plugin - Blend pictures, window elements and widgets
Information
REALbasic Developer Magazine - The March/April 2008 issue is now available
Setting up […]

Current Notes 32

Posted on April 4th, 2008 by Paul Lefebvre

Software
REALbasic DOM Wizard - The developer of this data access code generation tool is looking for beta testers
Text Scroll Effect - Creating scrolling text or logos
MonkeyBread Plugin - v8.2 brings over 20,000 functions and 1,000 classes
Information
Yuma Blog - There were several posts this week on topics such as Managing Your Yuma Framework, Class Interfaces and […]

Resizable Sheets

Posted on April 4th, 2008 by Paul Lefebvre

I needed this in a project I was working on and it turned out that Seth Willits had written about how to do this in a ResExcellence post from 2006.
Download the code to try it out. To use it, simply include the ResizableSheet class in your project and set your sheet’s Super to it. […]

Current Notes 31

Posted on April 1st, 2008 by Paul Lefebvre

Happy April Fools!
Software
HelpLogic - 1.5.1 is now available for OS X and 1.5 Beta 1 is now available for Windows
Information
Demangling C++ Names - A nifty routine to clean up function names on the REALbasic stack trace
Matching a Quoted String with a Regular Expression - Charles offers some REALbasic code for this problem
Community
More Money for REALbasic […]

REAL World: Photos

Posted on March 27th, 2008 by Paul Lefebvre

REAL Software has created a Flickr group for pictures from REAL World 2008. Check them all out here:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/realworld/pool/
And you have pictures, be sure to add them to the Flickr group as well!
This is me during the keynote:

Current Notes 30

Posted on March 25th, 2008 by Paul Lefebvre

For #30, an extra-large Current Notes!
Software
CalendarKit 2.0 beta - Now integrates with Outlook
Yuma - Develop web apps using REALbasic!
Toringo Plugins - Plugins for encryption and DRM
On-Target Reports 5.0.3 - Bug fixes
gZip plugin - Now open-source
Notebook TabPanel - It’s a notepad and a tab!
Extended Plugin 3.3 - Extend your numeric precision
Inline HTTP (and more) - From […]

REAL World 2008: The Events

Posted on March 24th, 2008 by Paul Lefebvre

On Wednesday night, everyone walked down to the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema for a somewhat strange event, at least for me. This place is a movie theatre that serves food and comedy all while showing a movie. I told you it was strange.
The movie was the 80’s classic Back to the Future. The […]