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February 23rd, 2008, by Paul Lefebvre in Current Notes
Software Sparkle – An update to the OS X library for auto-updating your applications Information Compare Array References to Nil – Charles has a good tip: use a Variant (at least in REALbasic 2008 Release 1) REALLoadGlobalMethod Doesn’t Do What You Might Think – Strictly for you...

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February 20th, 2008, by Paul Lefebvre in Current Notes
Software MBS Plug-ins 8.1 – More useful updates Ben’s ListBox Extras Class – Adds more features to the venerable ListBox class; $30 source included Zip Package – Another useful utility from Thomas Tempelmann, who also wrote some great Atari ST software back in the day Information First...

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February 19th, 2008, by Paul Lefebvre in Current Notes
Software UndoEditField – A lightweight class that extends the EditField with undo functionality FMOD Ex Audio Classes – Open-source classes to hook into the powerful, cross-platform FMOD Ex audio library Information MicroISV Sites that Sell – An eBook by Bob Walsh that might be useful...

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February 15th, 2008, by Paul Lefebvre in Current Notes
Software GraphPro 3.7 – Updated for REALbasic 2008 and other changes Free Valentina Database License – I’ve been meaning to give this database a try SyBrowser – Updates to this multi-platform database tool GraffitiButton & GraffitiStatusBar – Updates to work with REALbasic...

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February 11th, 2008, by Paul Lefebvre in Current Notes
Software REALbasic 2008 Release 1 – Now with Introspection RBUnit 3.0 – Now uses Introspection to make it even easier to use OxMath – A modular 2D & 3D math library Community Wish List: Compiler Warnings – This would be a good addition to REALbasic. 2008r1 Awesome Stuff –...

RBUnit 3.0
February 11th, 2008, by Paul Lefebvre in Open Source, RBUnit
I am pleased to announce that RBUnit 3.0 is now available. This new version makes use of Introspection, which was added to REALbasic 2008 Release 1. Introspection is the ability for a program to find out information about itself while it is running. This is not something you need every day, but it...

RegCode now available at Google Code
February 8th, 2008, by Paul Lefebvre in General, Open Source, Source Code
Not that anyone has ever submitted changes to RegCode, our open-source registration code generator, but I have greated a Google Code page for it: regcode.googlecode.com By using Google Code, RegCode is now in a nice Subversion repository, which anyone case download (if you’re interested in contributing,...

PNG Utilities Tip
February 6th, 2008, by Paul Lefebvre in Graphics
I have a lot of icons in PNG format with built in masks that I like to use in my toolbars. Although REALbasic loads the pictures fine with FolderItem.OpenAsPicture, it doesn’t load the mask, so I use the free PNG Utilities plug-in instead. One annoyance I’ve had with this is that the PNG...

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February 5th, 2008, by Paul Lefebvre in Current Notes
Software AppleListbox Control – Looks like a very nice implementation of the List you see on the left of iTunes/Finder (works on OS X, Windows and Linux) Release Notes Browser – A handy way to view the details of the REALbasic release notes ProgressBarListBox for Mac OS X – More useful...

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February 1st, 2008, by Paul Lefebvre in Current Notes
Software TextKit Alpha 3 – Yet another update to this promising component Display Overlord 3.0 – Open source code to gather video device capabilities Information Window.FloaterProcess Fix for Mac OS X – From Alacatia Labs Community Virtual Volume Gotcha – Something to watch out...