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How Far We've Come
Updating a RB2.1 app to RB2006
Issue: 5.2 (January/February 2007)
Author: Marc Zeedar
editor-at-rbdeveloper.com
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Article Length (in bytes): 13,092
Starting Page Number: 11
RBD Number: 5207
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When I first started using REALbasic I was so excited to find a language environment I could actually use that I wrote a lot of different programs. A lot of different programs. I started dozens of projects that I never finished, some because I ran into programming walls I didn't know how to scale, others because I got distracted or just ran out of time or interest. Other programs I wrote worked great and I've continued to use those compiled apps and just haven't had a compelling need to update them for many years.
Recently, I found a need to go back to update some of my older projects and so I decided to edit them using the latest version of REALbasic. The process was educational. I was surprised to discover how much REALbasic has changed -- improved -- in the years since version 2. The IDE is completely different, of course, but there are dozens of improved language features, new classes, and other changes I'd absorbed so gradually I'd completely forgotten about them.
Today we're going to explore just a few of these changes. It'll be a nice look back at how far REALbasic has come from those early days when the IDE only ran on Mac OS (the Classic version) and barely compiled for Windows. Hopefully you'll also get a few tips on converting older projects to newer versions of REALbasic. Note that this list is certainly not comprehensive but it should give you some idea of the issues involved.
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