We’re continuing our analysis of the ARBP survey and this time we look at database applications. More air time from me until the ARBP forums are up.... [More]

I have uploaded a little example project that shows how to write a Timer subclass in which the Action event implementation can be supplied using a delegate. I use this class all the time, and it has replaced all other Timer subclasses in my projects... [More]

What the heck, why not stretch this topic out even more, right? ;-) One topic that's near and dear to my heart are compiler bugs. It's near because I'm the one who sees and fixes all of them, and it's...... [More]

I just noticed that one of my favorite plugins, PNG Utilities, has been deprecated by the developer (Chaotic Box). I often used PNG Utilities in my projects to load icon files because it worked well and was free. Although it still works fine with R... [More]

In keeping with the bug reporting theme, reader Bob was wondering what sort of life cycle a bug report goes through at REAL. Since I'm not part of the testing staff, my answer might be slightly different from what someone...... [More]

It’s no secret that I work for REAL Software. So I get to review all kinds of reports about bugs and new feature requests, There’s one that seem to crop up quite a bit and that seems like it would even be quite handy - a way to include &#... [More]

HIToolbar has been updated for REALbasic 2008r3; Looking forward at the future of HIToolbar.... [More]

Lover of both oatmeal and coffee, Philip asks via the Suggestion Box for "Examples of bug reports spanning the spectrum of the best case to worse case, so that we have an idea of what you're looking for versus what...... [More]

One of my favorite features of Visual Studio was that it auto-corrected the case of keywords (when using VB) after you hit return on a line. So for example, if I typed: if personName = "Paul" then Visual Studio would immediately convert it... [More]

Up til now I always figured “Myeh… what do I need with a cell phone”. But I had figured if I got on it would be an iPhone. Now I guess I have to get one because Tim Horton’s (THE coffee gods - not those schmucks at Starbucks w... [More]

This caused me a bit of confusion, and so I am hoping to prevent the same from happening to you. It has to do with Unicode code points, and how they relate back to interesting things like bits in memory....... [More]

Software MonkeyBread Plugins 8.4 - Lots of new stuff including Cocoa controls On-Target Reports 5.0.10 - More small fixes Information REALbasic to support Cocoa in 2009 - A PR from REAL Software Community Interview with Geoff Perlman - Definitely wor... [More]

Last week, Real Software announced that REALbasic will support Cocoa in 2009 . I wonder if it has anything to do with this ..... [More]

We’ve started analyzing some of the results of the first ARBP survey. Since the ARBP forums are not up and working yet I figured I’d give ARBP some air time.... [More]

In REALbasic, there are several ways to get data from one format into another format. But there are two main terms used to describe the process: type casting, and type converting. You're probably already used to implicit type conversion without...... [More]

Long-time reader Christian asked via the Suggestion Box for some examples of useful IDE scripting. Specifically, he was wondering how you'd automate a build, and perform a bit of file maintenance after the fact. Well, you're in luck, because I...... [More]

So now that REALbasic has the ability to declare types within classes, it makes sense to ponder the idea of allowing one of the more pervasive types to be declared within a class: another class. Let's take a simple example...... [More]

I have a dilemma. I’ve been banging my head up against the wall today trying to figure out why my listbox is so fugly in Windows. I’m hoping that one of you cross-platform geniuses can help out.... [More]

Whew, that was a longer break than I expected to take.So what have I been up to?Well, for starters, I moved. That used up a pretty good chunk of time. And money. But my house is great. We're out in the country now. Nice and quiet. Very peaceful. This... [More]

Philip asked via the Suggestion Box about what sort of coding standards and design philosophies do we use at REAL Software when working on REALbasic, so I figured I'd discuss that a little bit. We don't do anything too terribly...... [More]

It's recently come up on the NUG that there is some confusion over division by zero, and what it should do. So I figured I'd take a stab at explaining the technical side of things. The problem is, what to...... [More]

During the course of an iChat conversation I was having the subject of creating a “popup calendar control” that was similar to the windows one or the Einhugur one Now I’m not going to claim this is a direct replacement or analog (it... [More]

Software IconLib 4.1 - Part of the Einhugur control library e-CryptIt Engine 9.3.7 - Part of the Einhugur control library On-Target Reports 5.0.10 - A few minor updates to both the Mac OS X and Windows versions WordGuise 4.4 - This is actually from l... [More]

My DevX.com article on getting started with REALbasic was published today. Check it out at http://www.devx.com/vb/Article/38731/0/page/1.... [More]

I touched on this briefly in a previous post about best practices in REALbasic, but I think the topic deserves its own post entirely. In REALbasic, constructors are initializer methods, not allocator methods. When you say "new SomeClass", the compile... [More]