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Issue 3.1 (September/October 2004)


Column
(Source Code)
Thoughts from the Publisher (Page 5)
News News from the REALbasic Community (Page 6)
Review DoThisNow 1.2 (Page 8)
Review Book: Hackers and Painters (Page 8)
Review iCal Import/Export 0.5 (Page 9)
Review OfficeTime 0.20 (Page 9)
Review PicTiles 1.0.7 (Page 10)
Review plist Class 1.1.3 (Page 10)
Feature Postmortem: CodeCleaner: Writing an Integrated IDE Extra (Page 11)
Feature Data Out: The Vernier LabPro and REALbasic Interfacing (Page 13)
Feature Easy Servers on OS X: Using xinetd to Make Painless Servers in REALbasic (Page 21)
Feature Command-Line RBScript: REALbasic's not just for applications anymore (Page 24)
Feature Sheet Programming: Improve Your Grasp of Asynchronous Design (Page 27)
Column
(Beginners Column)
Handling Preferences: Saving user preferences for your application (Page 30)
Column
(Databases for REAL)
Back to the Basics (Page 32)
Column
(Object-Oriented Thinking)
Keeping Data Private (Page 33)
Feature Arbitrary Precision Numbers: Storing and performing math on larger numbers with improved accuracy (Page 34)
Column
(Visual Basic and REALbasic)
Custom Controls: A lesson and practice session (Page 36)
Column
(The Topographic Apprentice)
Path Animation: Tell your Object3Ds where to go! (Page 38)
Column
(From Scratch)
From Scratch: Puzzles & Solutions (Page 40)
Column
(Intel Corner)
Register Document File Types: Fill and Query the Registry (Page 42)
Column
(Interface Design)
The Interface Quiz: Think you're an interface geek? Let's find out (Page 44)
Column
(Beyond the Limits)
Building a Graphics Library that Directly Extends the Picture Object (Page 46)

 



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