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Postmortem
Writer
Issue: 1.1 (August/September 2002)
Author: Daniel Kennett
Author Bio: Daniel Kennett has written several small programs with REALbasic, and successfully released a few of them to the public.
Article Description: Follow the development of a shareware word processor
Article Length (in bytes): 14,009
Starting Page Number: 11
RBD Number: 1001
Resource File(s): None
Related Web Link(s):
http://www.iconfactory.com/
http://www.esellerate.net/
http://www.versiontracker.com/
http://www.kennettnet.co.uk/software/
Known Limitations: None
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Writer was my first REALbasic baby. It started off in the REALbasic 2 days, and I learned to program with it. It slowly evolved until it got to version 4.5, when I decided to rename it from "KennettText" to "Writer," relabel it version 1.0, and throw it out to the big bad world. Back then it was really poor. There were no exception handlers at all, and if you tried to open the wrong kind of file it would throw an exception and quit. Despite this, Writer did quite well. Now, I realise this was because the "Made with REALbasic = piece of crap" era hadn't yet started. As Writer slowly developed, I began to see more and more REALbasic programs on VersionTracker, and I tried many of them to see what others had done. I wasn't impressed with many; they either looked horrible or looked beautiful but weren't programmed well, and threw exceptions everywhere. At first, the "Made with REALbasic" bashers were other programmers who worked with complicated languages such as C, and weren't too happy at seeing how quickly and easily you could make programs in REALbasic. They looked through the programs and blamed every single bug they found on this wonderful development environment. To this day, I see silly mistakes I make blamed on REALbasic by everyone.
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