Archive for January, 2008

Current Notes 20

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 […]

Current Notes 19

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

Current Notes 18

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 […]

Current Notes 17

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 […]

Creating an Eval function using RBScript

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 […]

Current Notes 16

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 […]

Current Notes 15

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 […]

CGS Private Functions

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 […]

Free OpenBase SQL 10 for REALbasic Developers

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 […]

Current Notes 14

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.