Posted on January 30th, 2008 by Paul Lefebvre
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 - An example video
Community
Great White Software acquires RBLibrary.com - I’ve bought a few articles from RBLibrary; good to […]
Posted on January 27th, 2008 by Paul Lefebvre
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 - Ryan Hickling discusses how he uses SOAP with REALbasic
Posted on January 25th, 2008 by Paul Lefebvre
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 in Visual Studio 2008 - They can be used with REALbasic, too!
Vista Home […]
Posted on January 23rd, 2008 by Paul Lefebvre
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 down your program execution
Creating an Eval function using RBScript - By […]
Posted on January 20th, 2008 by Paul Lefebvre
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 REALbasic application. With careful […]
Posted on January 20th, 2008 by Paul Lefebvre
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 buys MySQL - Yet another billion dollar bargain
Community
Single-line #if statements - A “did you know” from […]
Posted on January 13th, 2008 by Paul Lefebvre
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 MIDI support to your apps
Information
Timer Controls - A video describing how to use them to change control […]
Posted on January 6th, 2008 by Paul Lefebvre
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 functions […]
Posted on January 4th, 2008 by Paul Lefebvre
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 module (not the plugin) to connect.
Scott Keith of OpenBase was kind […]
Posted on January 3rd, 2008 by Paul Lefebvre
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 World 2008 Speaker Contest - The first (only) 3 entries are up. I’m one of them.
