RBDevZone http://www.rbdevzone.com The free community for REALbasic developers Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:02:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 en Current Notes 38 http://www.rbdevzone.com/2008/07/current-notes-38/ http://www.rbdevzone.com/2008/07/current-notes-38/#comments Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:02:56 +0000 Paul Lefebvre http://www.rbdevzone.com/2008/07/current-notes-38/ Software

UltraToolbar 2.2.1 - A minor update so that it works with REALbasic 2008 Release 2 (and later)

MonkeyBread Plugins 8.4 pre-release - Some Cocoa controls have been added, which is pretty exciting

Mac OS X 10.5.4 - I’m just about to install this update

GdViewer OCX - A Windows-only control for viewing images and PDFs

GuancheMOS 1.7 - Added REALbasic 2008 and Linux support to this serial code tool

Cornerstone - A promising new Subversion client for OS X

Yuma 1.0 Beta 9 - Probably the last beta

e-CryptIt Engine 9.3.6 - REALbasic 2008 compatibility updates

TreeView 4.1 - REALbasic 2008 compatibility updates

CoreClasses 4.7 - REALbasic 2008 compatibility updates

Information

Retrieve the Free Space on a Mac OS X Volume - Another tip from Charles, the declare guru

Community

Looking at MySQL Again - Some concerns about licensing

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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 - A promotion to get Mac developer tools for cheap. You can even get REALbasic Professional for 50% off!

Yuma Beta 8 - Now available. But it now at a discount before the beta ends!

ToringoLib 1.1 - Combines both ToringoCrypto and ToringoDRMInfo plugins

UniHelp 3.2 - Minor fixes to work better with REALbasic 2008 Release 2

Community

Using Introspection to Create Objects - A new feature in REALbasic 2008 Release 2

Good example for Pairs - How to use another new feature from REALbasic 2008 Release 2

A REALbasic Case Study - I always find it interesting to see how people are using REALbasic to solve business problems

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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 VB Migration Wizardry - Sometimes you just have to do it by hand

Web Apps the Future? - Are there really any feature-rich web apps out there?

FogBugz Integration - How REAL Software is using FogBugz to improve their bug tracking

Important Win32 application packaging changes - Windows apps can no longer be a single EXE. Read this to learn why.

Pairs - A new feature in REALbasic 2008 Release 2

New Faces at REAL Software - Learn about some of new people working at REAL Software

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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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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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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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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”)

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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

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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 Programmers - Jay Jennings offers his advice (from his REAL World keynote) to fellow REALbasic developers

Yuma blog - Find out the latest about this fantastic web development tool for REALbasic (apparently this blog engine is written in Yuma itself!)

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http://www.flickr.com/groups/realworld/pool/

And you have pictures, be sure to add them to the Flickr group as well!

This is me during the keynote:
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