Contents

Table Of Contents

Issue 2.5 (May/June 2004)

Column (Source Code)	Thoughts from the Publisher (Page 5)
News	News from the REALbasic Community (Page 6)
Review	IntelliMerge (Page 8)
Review	MaxiToolbar Pro (Page 8)
Review	REALbasic 5.5 (Page 9)
Review	acgi dispatcher (Page 9)
Review	Voice of the GoatCactus (Page 10)
Review	You Synchronize (Page 10)
Feature	Success Stories: The REALbasic Developer Program delivers a competitive advantage (Page 11)
Feature	A-OK! The Wings of Mercury: Programming the Right Stuff, Part Two (Page 12)
Feature	REAL World Conference 2004: An experience to remember (Page 16)
Feature	PDF, Really?: Saving and Printing PDF Documents from REALbasic (Page 20)
Feature	Dealing with Databases: Learning SQL Part 1: The SELECT Statement (Page 25)
Column (Beginners Column)	Custom Classes: Creating a statictext subclass (Page 28)
Feature	Pop-up Palettes: Learn to create a pop-up color selection palette (Page 30)
Column (Databases for REAL)	The New REALbasic 5.5 Database Engine (Page 32)
Feature	Seed Fill Algorithms: Different methods of implementing a "paint bucket" tool (Page 34)
Column (Object-Oriented Thinking)	Design Eye for the Programming Guy: Rethinking the PopupMenu Interface (Page 35)
Column (VB & RB)	Introducing the Mac OS: Getting to know the Mac OS from a programmer's viewpoint (Page 36)
Column (The Topographic Apprentice)	Path Animation: Tell your Object3Ds where to go! (Page 38)
Column (From Scratch)	From Scratch: Building The TanGram UI (Page 40)
Column (Intel corner)	A Statusbar for your Windows application: How to add a statusbar to a window. (Page 42)
Column (Interface Design)	Help!, Part II: The fine art of documentation (Page 44)
Column (Beyond the Limits)	IRC Bots: Easy! (Page 46)

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