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Visual Basic and REALbasic
Comparing Interfaces
Get comfortable using REALbasic
Issue: 2.3 (December/January 2003)
Author: Owen Yamauchi
Author Bio: Owen Yamauchi is a freelance programmer who has been programming REALbasic since version F4. He is the Lead Programmer for Domain Softworx, a company that produces developer tools for REALbasic.
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Visual Basic (VB) is the Windows implementation of BASIC. It is very popular among novice programmers, and it has what is probably one of the largest third-party communities of any development environment. If you're a REALbasic (RB) user, you may have heard of or used some of RB's VB-related features. RB can directly import certain VB files, and there is even an external application that aids in converting VB projects into RB projects. One of the aims of this column is to help you with that task.
If you're a VB user just learning to use RB, you may feel out of place in RB's integrated development environment (IDE). RB and VB have very different interface layouts. Here, we will compare VB 6 (not VB.NET) to the latest version of RB, which at the time of writing is 5.2.1.
One thing that may seem odd to VB programmers is that RB stores projects as one single file. In VB, projects are spread over multiple files: all forms, modules, and other items are stored in individual files. You will probably find this restricting at first, but as you get used to it you realize that it's not restricting at all, and it reduces hard drive clutter as well. RB's Project window (the window showing all items in the project) provides an adequate overview of the project. In case you do want to store an item as a separate file, simply dragging the item onto the desktop or into a folder will create a separate file for it, so you can import it into other projects.
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