I tried to explain why a certain item in RB was treated the way it was (although admittedly there IS an issue that should NOT have happened) REALbasic strives to create GUI’ s that look much the same on the respective target platforms as the on... [More]

REALbasic 2008 Release 2 had a very important change that people are discussing with regards to the way executables are built on Windows. In previous versions of REALbasic, all of your applications were single-file executables. On Windows and this ha... [More]

Here's the source code: if &hFFFFFFFF > 0 then break else break end if (Of course, you can ignore the constants -- this happens with variables as well. Imagine u as being a UInt32 whose value is 0xFFFFFFFF, and i...... [More]

We all know that REAL Software can't be bothered to document REALbasic properly, so it comes as no surprise that I can find no reference in the docs to the pairs class, the only new feature RS is advertising for 2008r2.Of course, Aaron has stepped in... [More]

Wow, today's one of those news days that money can't buy.In Vacaville, California, a man found a pit bull in his car. In the engine. Yeah. Picture here. That's pretty odd, I'd say.And in my own hometown of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the 600 block of So... [More]

NICKENICH, Germany (May 7th, 2008) -- Monkeybread Softwaremakes their tutorial movies available as Podcast on iTunes.You can search for REALbasic on iTunes or just follow this link: [More]

One of the new features of REALbasic 2008r2 is the concept of "Pairs", and I wanted to take a little bit of time to discuss them. The concept of a pair is something that comes up frequently in programming. As...... [More]

A few folks have emailed me or left comments on the site to ask how Sybil, my Parkwood Hybrid, is doing these days. In a nutshell, she's great. In a slightly larger nutshell, I'm happy enough with her that I sold my Rickenbacker, and those of you who... [More]

Ziar nad Hronom, Slovakia (May 3, 2008) -- MacO's creative workshop is pleased to announce new version of DiskLister, a SQL catalogizer for Mac, Windows and Linux. Create databases of your backups to search and browse them on your computer or over ne... [More]

Interface Kit 1.0.3 and MIER 1.5.1 updated todayJhangle, Pingtung, Taiwan (May 5th, 2008) -- Sam Rowlands, freelance developer and shareware author announced the immediate availability of Interface Kit 1.0.3 and Machine Information + Erro... [More]

Some things like undo, feature rich controls, keyboard shortcuts and modifier keys, application-wide drag and drop, and copy and paste of application objects are just a few of the things that I just find myself missing terribly. We spent 8 hours yes... [More]

REAL Software Now Shipping REALbasic 2008 Release 2New release includes 200 improvements and adds Pairs as a new class.AUSTIN, Texas, USA (May 6, 2008)— REAL Software, maker of REALbasic, a cross-platform development environme... [More]

Well so far so good. I’ve not blown anything up (yet), and I’ve poured through a lot of code and even figured out some things in the IDE I even closed one of my own bug reports because I can’t reproduce it any more either Obviou... [More]

I could have sworn that I blogged on this topic before, but a peek at my backlog shows that I've not. I'll be dipped! Please accept my apologies about how this posting rambles on... I've had about eight hours of...... [More]

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I start my new position with REAL tomorrow ! I’ve been spending time this weekend just getting everything set up so I can get connected to SVN, Fogubugz, email, etc, etc so I won’t have to spend a pile of time goofing around doing that to... [More]

Top 278 Star Wars Lines Improved By Replacing A Word With "Pants".Some samples:These aren't the pants you're looking for.Search your pants, Luke. You know it's true.I cannot teach him. The boy has no pants.He has no time for smugglers who drop their ... [More]

That's a great question! I've always said that REALbasic is a good choice (for the most part) for people wanting to migrate from Visual Basic 6. The article points out that for most applications, they should probably stay in VB6 unless they're high... [More]

Toronto, Ontario (April 28, 2008) -- RAGE Software announced today the immediate availability of RAGE Sitemap Automator 1.9.5. A free update to the search engine submission tool which helps webmasters get their websites listed in Google, Yahoo, MSN a... [More]

CHICAGO, Illinois--April 28th, 2008--Oranged Software releases an update to the new accounting package built on power, flexibility and ease of use: Accounted.Accounted is a powerful bookkeeping solution with many of the features seen in m... [More]

I’m a few minutes early, but not by much. Unfortunately, there won’t be a FF08, so that means that you *must* get to SWFox to satisfy your VFP addiction. I’m sure that the SWFox gang will put on another great show this year. ... [More]

Nearly every project I've ever worked on (even in my electrical engineering days) has had lengthy requirement documents. Whether I did it, the team did it, or the customer did it, the requirements documentation was generally the bible of what the pr... [More]

This post showed up on the forums the other day, but I think it requires some more time in the spotlight -- I am very happy about all of the new hires we've been making recently. So I'd like to...... [More]

We’ve added a lot of new people recently to the REAL Software team. Since many of you communicate with REAL Software staff directly, and since we have added new people, we want to make sure you know who you are communicating with.Nathan ... [More]

Spell Checker version 1.0 has been released on April 24, 2008! Spell Checker is a REALbasic Class that allows a REALbasic programmer to easily add spell checking capability to their applications. Spell Checker also provides simple diction... [More]