Archive for April, 2008

Current Notes 35

Posted on April 25th, 2008 by Paul Lefebvre

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 […]

Current Notes 34

Posted on April 16th, 2008 by Paul Lefebvre

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 […]

Current Notes 33

Posted on April 12th, 2008 by Paul Lefebvre

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 […]

Current Notes 32

Posted on April 4th, 2008 by Paul Lefebvre

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 […]

Resizable Sheets

Posted on April 4th, 2008 by Paul Lefebvre

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. […]

Current Notes 31

Posted on April 1st, 2008 by Paul Lefebvre

Happy April Fools!
Software
HelpLogic - 1.5.1 is now available for OS X and 1.5 Beta 1 is now available for Windows
Information
Demangling C++ Names - A nifty routine to clean up function names on the REALbasic stack trace
Matching a Quoted String with a Regular Expression - Charles offers some REALbasic code for this problem
Community
More Money for REALbasic […]