by Seth Willits
After much hard work and perspiration (not really)…….. it’s done.

As I originally thought, this code will take forever to explain and I don’t think many of you will want to read it anyway. It works and that’s all you need to know, right? If you have any questions about how this [...]

So, it’s been a couple days since RBDevZone has debuted with its new look. I’d love to get your thoughts and also give you a little bit of background as to why it changed.
The main reason for the change is that the old site, which was very functional, just wasn’t much fun to use. [...]

Yesterday I got an e-mail from MacTech Magazine announcing a promotion to get REALbasic Professional for Mac OS X for $300. That’s $200 off the regular price of $500. The offer expires October 19, 2007.
To take advantage of this offer, go here. (The store also seems to let you apply the discount to [...]

I’m a big fan of LinkedIn. I find it’s a great way to maintain your professional network. You can see my LinkedIn profile here:

I’m also a big fan of REALbasic. So, I’ve decided to “link” up the two and created a REALbasic group on LinkedIn. A group allows you to stay connected to other REALbasic [...]

by Bob Keeney
Many years ago, Erick Tejkowski posted a tutorial on alternating row colors to get the same style as an iTunes type listbox. The solution is simple, but yet many people still ask how to do it. We’ll step through the process on how to do this with REALbasic 2007.
Create the Class
Code reusability is [...]

by Seth Willits
The MessageDialog class is an important user interface element that if not done correctly, sticks out like a sore thumb on Mac OS X. Users expect a consistent message interface between applications, so it is critical that developers adopt and embrace the MessageDialog class as a part of becoming a good Mac OS [...]

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 move to their powerful, but extremely complex .NET platform.
I can hear you all screaming “No!!!, say it isn’t so”. But it is so. [...]