Beginning REALbasic: From Novice to Professional

✍ Scribed by Ford J.L.

• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 397
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

If you're just getting into programming, or you're already an experienced VB programmer who wants to quickly learn a programming alternative, then REALbasic is the ideal language for you. REALbasic is an easy-to-learn, powerful, cross-platform programming language that allows you to write powerful applications that may be distributed across Windows, Mac, and Linux.Beginning REALbasic is an ideal beginners' title: it starts off with a detailed introduction to REALbasic and its interface and basic functions to get you settled in comfortably. The book continues by exploring the fundamentals of programming with REALbasic - creating interfaces, menus, and toolbars, and working with conditional logic, loops, databases, object-oriented programming, sound, graphics, and more.Each chapter provides essential background knowledge, without wasting any time on unnecessary theory. The book also features step-by-step tutorials that help you build real-world expertise.

✦ Table of Contents

Beginning REALbasic: From Novice to Professional......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Introduction......Page 23
PART 1 Introducing REALbasic......Page 26
CHAPTER 1 An Introduction to REALbasic......Page 28
CHAPTER 2 Navigating the REALbasic Integrated Development Environment......Page 60
PART 2 Learning How to Learning How to......Page 90
CHAPTER 3 Creating an Application’s User Interface......Page 92
CHAPTER 4 Working with REALbasic Menus.......Page 128
CHAPTER 5 Storing and Retrieving Application Data......Page 160
CHAPTER 6 Making Decisions with Conditional Logic......Page 188
CHAPTER 7 Iterative Processing......Page 212
CHAPTER 8 Object-Oriented Programming......Page 234
PART 3 Advanced Topics......Page 266
CHAPTER 9 Processing Text Files......Page 268
CHAPTER 10 Working with Databases.......Page 298
CHAPTER 11 Working with Graphics and Audio......Page 326
CHAPTER 12 Debugging REALbasic Applications.......Page 348
PART 4 Appendixes......Page 386
APPENDIX A Migrating Visual Basic Projects to REALbasic......Page 388
APPENDIX B What’s on the CD-ROM?......Page 392
APPENDIX C What’s Next?......Page 394
INDEX......Page 370