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Intel corner
From Mac to Windows
Questions of a Windows developer making his first Mac application.
Issue: 3.3 (January/February 2005)
Author: Christian Schmitz
Author Bio: Christian Schmitz is the creator of the Monkeybread Software REALbasic Plugins.
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Article Length (in bytes): 9,955
Starting Page Number: 42
RBD Number: 3320
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Some weeks ago a developer contacted me with a few questions about REALbasic. He is working for a company on an application which is made in REALbasic. They develop on Windows and had a Windows version of the application finished.
Now the boss wants a Mac version;this was the original reason they chose REALbasic instead of Visual Basic. However, this developer did not have much knowledge about the Mac OS, so he asked me about the following topics:
Moving data between running applications
His application is divided into a main application and a helper application, and there is a need to move data between them. He started with the easiest way, which is to use a shared file. One application writes a file and the other application regularly checks whether the file exists. If it exists, it is read and deleted. The first application now sees that the file is deleted and goes on.
This way is easy, but you can run into synchronization problems and of course you waste a lot of CPU time for the regular file checks. Or, in other words, this can be done easier and more efficiently.
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