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REALbasic - 4.0

object oriented visual programming environment

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Selected Version:	4.0
Release Date:	2002-01-07
License:	Update
Downloads (version 4.0):	74
Downloads (all versions):	133,191
Price:	$99.95

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Product Description:

REALbasic: the powerful, easy-to-use tool for creating your own software for Macintosh, Mac OS X, and Windows.

Top Five Reasons You Need REALbasic

Creates compiled, native applications for Macintosh, Mac OS X, and Windows! Since they all use the same code and layout, you only need to design your application once.
Allows you make your computer do what you need it to. Everyone has unique problems they need to solve, and REALbasic allows you create your own solution!
It is easy to use and learn. Build a working application in less than 5 minutes! Hobbyists and professionals experience profound productivity.
Encourages experimentation and learning. Since you can run your application at any time, you build things step-by-step, and get instant results.
It's Professional-strength! REALbasic uses a sophisticated version of Object-Oriented BASIC, provides access to the Mac Toolbox, SQL, AppleEvents, and more!

What's new in this version:

Hundreds of enhancements and improvements: We asked our customers what they wanted and worked hard to deliver! These include:
All-new ListBox: Greatly expanded power and flexibility with the addition of cell borders and gridlines, complete control over cell background painting, text drawing, and more, plus new events for tracking user interaction. New Header functionality with a Sort widget and new sort functions and more.
All-new EditField: Now supports paragraph alignment for the whole EditField or on a paragraph-by-paragraph basis, plus new events for tracking user interaction, and enhanced for Mac OS X.
External Project Items: provides a way to keep a single copy of commonly used code that you use in multiple projects. Update that copy, and its changes will be updated in each project the next time you open it.
Find and Replace: finding stuff in your projects is dramatically easier, with much more control over what and where to search. Finds names, declarations, and more.
Drag and Drop: dragging items from the Project Window to controls or the Code Editor automatically adds useful code (such as running the AppleScript, playing the sound, showing the Window and so on). Dragging a control from the Toolbar to the Project Items window creates a subclass of that control.
RbScript: now compiled on PowerPC (both Mac OS X and previous versions of the Mac OS) and with dozens of new functions and methods.
Multimedia, Graphics, and Games: new depth and resolution properties for pictures, pan and volume for sounds, fog for Rb3D and more
Custom Controls: Canvas has 3 new properties: UseFocusRing, AcceptFocus, and AcceptTabs and 3 new events: GotFocus, LostFocus, and KeyDown greatly expanding what�s possible with the Canvas.
Interactive shell: now access shell functions which run continuously. Previously, the shell only worked with functions which ran, performed their action, returned the result, and ended (such as �ls�).

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.1
Mac OS X 10.0
Mac OS Classic

Additional Requirements:

System 7.6.1 or higher
CarbonLib
or
Mac OS X 10.0 or higher

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REALbasic learning source - Version: 2009.4.0.0, 11/22/2009 05:18AM PST

qbap

REALbasic is a easy to learn cross-platform programming language. It offers everything you need to make nice applications for Linux, Mac or Windows. But there was always a problem with getting the knowledge about this language. Now after years arose a great learning resource for REALbasic - http://realbasic.tutspolis.com/

Not backwards compatible - Version: 2009.4.0.0, 10/3/2009 09:24AM PST

jfcantlon

People should be aware that RealBasic is *not* backwards compatible--if you write a program in RealBasic, it won't even open in the version they put out 5 years from now. My library of hundreds of RealBasic programs (that were written between 2001 and 2005) is totally useless now because none of them will open in the 2008 and 2009 versions (I've talked to RealBasic staff about this and they claim that this phenomenon is totally normal...sure it is).

Here is the response I got from RealBasic when I asked why my programs won't even OPEN in the new version:

"Actually, 5 years is a long time to expect something to work without any changes to the project. I could understand expecting a text document to open after 5 years but development tools are much more complex because of OS changes and things like that. I have used a lot of programming tools (not just REALbasic) and have never seen one that did not require changes over the years."

REALbasic part of bundle - Version: 2009.3.0, 8/5/2009 10:48AM PST

MarkusWinter

You can get REALbasic personal edition (normally $99) as part of the $50 bundle at http://www.themacsale.com/index.php, and if you use the code REALCUSTOMER then you'll get 10% off as well