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 January 30th, 2008, by Paul Lefebvre in Current Notes
Software TextKit Alpha 2 – Development continues on this EditField control Information A Dictionary Iteration Trick – Might help with all the casting that is usually needed A Bit of Functional Programming by Example – Some advice from Charles REALbasic Listbox Drag-and-Drop –...
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 January 27th, 2008, by Paul Lefebvre in Current Notes
Software iSight Camera Class – Show video from an iSight in your apps OpenGL Plugin – Easily add OpenGL 1.x functionality to your apps Community REALbasic Developer Association Survey – Give some feedback on what you’d like to see in an organization REALbasic and SOAP –...
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 January 25th, 2008, by Paul Lefebvre in Current Notes
Software TextKit – A new EditField plugin from the geniuses at Alaatia Labs MesaSQLite 1.6.4 – I keep meaning to try this out. OS X-only right now. RealSQLDatabase Editor – Another tool to manage your databases farhnware – A bunch of free source code Information Free icons...
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 January 23rd, 2008, by Paul Lefebvre in Current Notes
Software HelpLogic 1.5 – Mac OS X version of this help authoring tool is now available TimeBase 3.0 – A plugin to set and get the timebase of movies MonkeyBread Plugins 8.0 – Now over 18,000 functions! Information Breaker Breaker – Be warned that the break command can slow...
Creating an Eval function using RBScript
 January 20th, 2008, by Paul Lefebvre in RBScript, Source Code
On the REAL Software forums, someone posted a question about Eval functionality in REALbasic. In other languages, the Eval function is used to evaluate expressions. REALbasic doesn’t have a direct equivalent, but it does have RBScript which allows you to write and run your own code within your...
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 January 20th, 2008, by Paul Lefebvre in Current Notes
Software REALbasic 2008 Release 1 Announced – Available in February; adds Introspection REAL SQL Server 2008 Release 1 Available – It looks like mostly bugs fixes Information REALbasic and Memory Usage – Useful research done by Andy Dent  REALbasic gets some love from InfoWorld Sun...
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 January 13th, 2008, by Paul Lefebvre in Current Notes
Software Inline HTTP – Implement HTTP in REALbasic Report Page – A REALbasic class to simplify generating reports CGTransitionClass – Use some OS X Leopard graphical goodness in your app Broadcaster Plugin – Delegate your event handlers CoreMidiModule – A module to add...
CGS Private Functions
 January 6th, 2008, by Paul Lefebvre in ResExcellence, Source Code, User Interface
by Seth Willits Mac OS X is full of private APIs available only to Apple to use in their own software and the operating system. Clever developers, much more knowledgeable than I, have been able to reverse engineer some of these APIs and do some neat things with them. I was fiddling with the CGSPrivate...
Free OpenBase SQL 10 for REALbasic Developers
 January 4th, 2008, by Paul Lefebvre in Databases
I bet you didn’t know, but OpenBase makes their excellent database server, OpenBase SQL 10, available for free for REALbasic developers (OpenBase Unlimited for REALbasic).  This edition includes Code Builder, a free license to On-Target Reports and requires you to use the REALbasic Connectivity...
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 January 3rd, 2008, by Paul Lefebvre in Current Notes
Happy New Year! Software Sparkle – An update to the application update framework Information Database video tutorial – From the new RBNation blogger,  Jay Jennings Community Challenge: Software without Bugs – Can you write software without bugs?  Also see the follow-up post. REAL...