RBDevZone Podcast #3: Paul’s Favorite REALbasic Tools
RBDevZone Podcast #3: Paul’s Favorite REALbasic Tools
RBDevZone Podcast #3 is now available. This week’s topic: Paul’s Favorite REALbasic Tools
RBDevZone Podcast #2
RBDevZone Podcast #2
RBDevZone Podcast #2 is now available. This week’s topic: The Association of REALbasic Professionals
OKCancel Control
OKCancel Control
If you’re striving for a nice cross-platform UI, one of the things you need to consider is the placement of OK and Cancel buttons on your windows. On Mac OS X, these buttons are in this order: Cancel, OK On Windows and Linux, these buttons are: OK, Cancel I’ve put together a quick control...
RBDevZone Podcast #1
RBDevZone Podcast #1
The first RBDevZone Podcast is now available! Listen to Paul Lefebvre as he gives an overview of the latest REALbasic news and covers some of the changes in REALbasic 2009 Release 4.
Migrating from Visual Basic to REALbasic
Migrating from Visual Basic to REALbasic
This is an updated version of an article that originally appeared in REALbasic Developer Magazine 6.1 (Nov/Dec 2007). You’ve all heard the news: Visual Basic is dead. Support for Microsoft Visual Basic 6 has pretty much ended and you will soon be completely on your own. Microsoft wants you to...
ARBP Chat with Aaron Ballman: Transcript Available
ARBP Chat with Aaron Ballman: Transcript Available
The chat transcript is now available for those that couldn’t make it. Yet again we ran into difficulty with our chat software, but we were able to muddle through it. This is the last chat we’ll be doing using this chat software. We’re investigating other options for future chats. Aaron...
SQLite Manager on Sale
SQLite Manager on Sale
For those of you that use SQLite (REALSQLDatabase) with REALbasic, you might be interested to know that SQLite Manager (from SQLabs) is on sale at MacZot today for only $24 (half price)!
CallByName Function
CallByName Function
A post in the REAL Software forums asked if REALbasic has a CallByName function like VB has. After reviewing my answer and the CallByName function in VB, I am presenting a more thorough solution here. First, REALbasic does not have CallByName. However, it does have Introspection (aka reflection) which...
ARBP Chat with Geoff Perlman Transcript
ARBP Chat with Geoff Perlman Transcript
The chat transcript for last night’s chat with Geoff Perlman is now available at ARBP: ARBP Chat with Geoff Perlman Transcript After we worked through a few annoying technical difficulties, that chat went really well. Thank goodness I built a quick app in REALbasic to manage the incoming questions,...
Lots of REALbasic News
Lots of REALbasic News
Colorado REALbasic Summit You asked for it; now you have it. There will be a REALbasic conference this year, but instead of it being hosted by REAL Software it will be jointly hosted by Inspiring Applications and the Association of REALbasic Professionals. And if you are an ARBP member you can save...

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