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Apr 25, 2008

Software

SpellChecker – Add spell-checking to your REALbasic apps

Yuma Beta 5 – The updates keep coming; now the enterprise version is available

Information

REAL Software Changes Feedback System – They now use Joel Spolsky’s FogBugz

Community

A Visual Basic Programmer’s Review of REALbasic 2008 Release 1 – Summary: REALbasic is “a more than sufficient ‘upgrade’ to VB6′

Giving REALbasic Another Chance – A developer talks about things he likes and doesn’t like about REALbasic

VB Forums – If you’d like to help VB users consider REALbasic, check out the “Other Basics” forum at VBForums.com

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Apr 16, 2008

Software

Monkeybread Software Tutorial Movies – Learn how to use the Monkeybread plugin

Information

Pretty-Printing XML – A useful tip for using XSLT to format your XML

Community

Thom McGrath joins REAL Software – Thom’s provided some useful stuff to the RB community. I’m sure he’ll be a great addition.

REAL World 2009 Dates – Announced: May 4-6, 2009

Is REALbasic a Good Name? – I don’t think it is, either

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Apr 12, 2008

Software

Yuma Beta 4 – The updates keep coming for this fabulous way to do web development with REALbasic

PNG Mask Extractor – Extract Mask data from PNG files

MPCalc Plugin 3.0 – A multi-precision RPN calculator for REALbasic

Amalgam Plugin – Blend pictures, window elements and widgets

Information

REALbasic Developer Magazine – The March/April 2008 issue is now available

Setting up Subversion on Windows – From Coding Horror’s Jeff Atwood

Community

My First Yuma Code – Jay takes a look a Yuma

Changes Happen – Norman’s take on the latest REAL Software staff changes

Why Do You Need Introspection? – Another insightful post from Aaron

Yuma Forums – Forums (build with Yuma itself) are now available!

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Apr 4, 2008

Software

REALbasic DOM Wizard – The developer of this data access code generation tool is looking for beta testers

Text Scroll Effect – Creating scrolling text or logos

MonkeyBread Plugin – v8.2 brings over 20,000 functions and 1,000 classes

Information

Yuma Blog – There were several posts this week on topics such as Managing Your Yuma Framework, Class Interfaces and HTML Best Practices

Community

Mars Leaves REAL Software – Some thought Mars’ post was an April Fool’s joke, but alas it was not

Neat Ideas with Introspection – Aaron talks about how to unserialize an object, which you cannot currently do in REALbasic

A Bit of RB Trivia – Did you know the App object can sometimes be Nil? I didn’t.

Marking Code for Later Attention – A useful tip from Charles to aid in your refactoring

Programs Ted Nelson Likes – REALbasic is one of them he mentions (who’s Ted Nelson? He invented the term “hypertext”)

Resizable Sheets

Apr 4, 2008

I needed this in a project I was working on and it turned out that Seth Willits had written about how to do this in a ResExcellence post from 2006.

Download the code to try it out. To use it, simply include the ResizableSheet class in your project and set your sheet’s Super to it. And of course, be sure to enable the resizable property on the sheet.

It worked pretty well for me in REALbasic 2008 Release 1.

Download Resizable Sheet Project