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REALbasic 2005
New & Improved
Issue: 3.5 (May/June 2005)
Author: Joe Strout
Author Bio: Joe Strout is on the engineering team at REAL Software.
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At the REAL World 2005 conference, REAL Software presented its new integrated development environment (IDE). That's right -- the IDE has been rewritten from the ground up. It's shipping with REALbasic 2005, and contains some substantial improvements over past versions of REALbasic.
The new IDE has been in development for over a year; in fact, an early preview of it was shown at last year's conference (REAL World 2004). It's grown substantially since then, both on the inside and on the outside.
At the time of this writing, REALbasic 2005 is still in beta, though by the time this reaches you it should be either released, or very close to it. It's possible that some features will change a bit, or some small features may be added or removed, by the time all the dust settles. With that small caveat, let's dig in and see what all the excitement is about.
Single-Window UI
The user interface (UI) in REALbasic 2005 uses a modern, single-window approach.
That's not to say you can't open multiple windows; you certainly can, either to browse multiple projects at once or to get multiple views of the same project. But in general, you'll do all your work on a single project within one window. What were separate windows in past versions of REALbasic -- for example, a window editor, a code editor, and the project window itself -- become tabs in the new IDE. See Figure 1.
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