UltraUpdater 1.0 Now Available
March 18th, 2010, by Paul Lefebvre in Controls, Source Code, User Interface
UltraUpdater adds auto-update capability to your REAL Studio applications with only 2 lines of code! Check it out here: http://www.rbdevzone.com/ultraupdater/

OKCancel Control
November 6th, 2009, by Paul Lefebvre in Controls, Source Code
If you’re striving for a nice cross-platform UI, one of the things you need to consider is the placement of OK and Cancel buttons on your windows. On Mac OS X, these buttons are in this order: Cancel, OK On Windows and Linux, these buttons are: OK, Cancel I’ve put together a quick control...

NumberField Control
December 6th, 2007, by Paul Lefebvre in Controls, Source Code
NumberField is a subclass of EditField that allows the user to only type numbers. To use it, import the NumberField.rbo control into your project and then drag it to a window (you’ll find it in the Project Controls section of the control list). There is only one property, which you can modify...

StaticLink Control
December 6th, 2007, by Paul Lefebvre in Controls, Source Code
This is a subclass of the StaticText control that gives you the functionality of a hyperlink in your applications. To use it, simply drag the StaticLink control to your Window (you can find it in the Project Controls section of the control list). You can then set its behavior directly in the IDE Properties...

Splitter Control
October 15th, 2007, by Paul Lefebvre in Controls, ResExcellence, Source Code
by Seth Willits After much hard work and perspiration (not really)…….. it’s done. As I originally thought, this code will take forever to explain and I don’t think many of you will want to read it anyway. It works and that’s all you need to know, right? If you have any...

Alternating Color ListBox (like iTunes)
October 10th, 2007, by Paul Lefebvre in Controls, ResExcellence, User Interface
by Bob Keeney Many years ago, Erick Tejkowski posted a tutorial on alternating row colors to get the same style as an iTunes type listbox. The solution is simple, but yet many people still ask how to do it. We’ll step through the process on how to do this with REALbasic 2007. Create the Class Code...

Quartz Gradients
September 15th, 2007, by Paul Lefebvre in Controls, ResExcellence, Source Code, User Interface
by Seth Willits Continuing the article about drawing a simple rectangle with a Quartz shadow, in this article we take a look at axial gradients. The code for this is actually a major pain to explain (I admit I don’t know everything there is to know about it as well), so, sorry, but I’m going...