PNG Utilities Deprecated
August 26th, 2008, by Paul Lefebvre in Graphics, Open Source
I just noticed that one of my favorite plugins, PNG Utilities, has been deprecated by the developer (Chaotic Box). I often used PNG Utilities in my projects to load icon files because it worked well and was free. Although it still works fine with REALbasic 2008 Release 3.1, it will no longer be updated...

Standardize Format
August 21st, 2008, by Paul Lefebvre in General
One of my favorite features of Visual Studio was that it auto-corrected the case of keywords (when using VB) after you hit return on a line. So for example, if I typed: if personName = "Paul" then Visual Studio would immediately convert it to: If personName = "Paul" Then A small...

Current Notes 43
August 19th, 2008, by Paul Lefebvre in Current Notes
Software MonkeyBread Plugins 8.4 – Lots of new stuff including Cocoa controls On-Target Reports 5.0.10 – More small fixes Information REALbasic to support Cocoa in 2009 – A PR from REAL Software Community Interview with Geoff Perlman – Definitely worth reading ARBP Survey #2 –...

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August 5th, 2008, by Paul Lefebvre in Current Notes
Software IconLib 4.1 – Part of the Einhugur control library e-CryptIt Engine 9.3.7 – Part of the Einhugur control library On-Target Reports 5.0.10 – A few minor updates to both the Mac OS X and Windows versions WordGuise 4.4 – This is actually from last month, but I think I missed...