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Issue 3.6 (July/August 2005)


Column
(Source Code) 		Thoughts from the Publisher (Page 5)
News News from the REALbasic Community (Page 6)
Review Profile: Picture Patrol (Page 8)
Review Stock Investment Guide 1.5.9 (Page 8)
Review SmartGroupBox (Page 9)
Review DTM Data Generator (Page 9)
Review Studiometry (Page 10)
Review Wild Lands Arcade Hockey (Page 10)
Feature Postmortem: iList Studio 2: Developing a Full Fledged Database Application (Page 11)
Feature Using Cell Phone Ring Tones as Audible Alerts (Page 14)
Feature Maze Generation: How to Get Lost in Your Work (Page 18)
Feature Floating Numbers: The Problem with Floating-Point Numbers, Part I (Page 22)
Feature Networking 101: Networking 101 (Page 27)
Feature Get a Handle on Your Keyboard: How to take charge of your keyboard using the Windows API and REALbasic (Page 30)
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(Beginner's Corner) 		File Things, Part One: Working with "folderitems" (Page 32)
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(Databases for Real) 		Database Bindings (Page 34)
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(Object-Oriented Thinking) 		Implementing a MessageCenter Module: Decoupling The Observer Pattern (Page 35)
Feature Levenshtein Distance: Calculating the degree of difference between two strings (Page 36)
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(The Topographic Apprentice) 		Control Panel Library: Indicator Class (Page 38)
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(From Scratch) 		From Scratch: Groups And Whispers In TanGram (Page 40)
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(Intel corner) 		Printing Rotated Text: Using declares to draw a rotated string on Windows. (Page 42)
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(Interface Design) 		Throw it on the Dash, Part I: Write your own Dashboard Widget (Page 44)
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(Beyond the Limits) 		Pictures and Dynamic Libraries: a poor man's plugin (Page 46)

 


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