Archive for the ‘Current Notes’ Category

Current Notes 37

Posted on June 16th, 2008 by Paul Lefebvre

I’ve been swamped with REALbasic work lately. That’s a good thing, right?
Software
Iceberg - A tool to create OS X installer packages. PackageMaker kept crashing on me but this free tool worked wonderfully.
Inno Setup - And on the Windows side, I use this tool to create my installers
Give Good Food to your Mac - [...]

Current Notes 36

Posted on May 15th, 2008 by Paul Lefebvre

Software
REALbasic 2008 Release 2 - Mostly bug fixes, but a new Pair class was added.
Custom EditField - An amazing Canvas-based EditField.
Information
UUID Class - Generate UUID (GUID) on Mac OS X and Linux
Providing a Better Drag Image - Give your OS X apps more eye candy
Community
ARBP site update - Now built using Yuma!
Abandoning the Fantasy of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Current Notes 30

Posted on March 25th, 2008 by Paul Lefebvre

For #30, an extra-large Current Notes!
Software
CalendarKit 2.0 beta - Now integrates with Outlook
Yuma - Develop web apps using REALbasic!
Toringo Plugins - Plugins for encryption and DRM
On-Target Reports 5.0.3 - Bug fixes
gZip plugin - Now open-source
Notebook TabPanel - It’s a notepad and a tab!
Extended Plugin 3.3 - Extend your numeric precision
Inline HTTP (and more) - From [...]

Current Notes 29

Posted on March 12th, 2008 by Paul Lefebvre

Software
Icon Suite - Icon utilities for REALbasic
Interface Kit - Adds a bunch of slick UI controls to your apps
Elastic Window - Source code license is now 45% off. I haven’t used this, but Christian’s a good guy and makes good software.

Current Notes 28

Posted on March 7th, 2008 by Paul Lefebvre

Software
UNIXCrypt - Now available on Google Code
RBScoutSubmit - Now available on Google Code. Submit crash logs from your apps to a FogBugz bug tracker
OTR Graphics - The graphics engine for On-Target Reports is now open-source
Community
Association of REALbasic Professionals - You can learn more about this new organization at REAL World 2008 during breakfast on [...]