Beginning REALbasic: From Novice to Professional (Expert's Voice)

✍ Scribed by Jr., Jerry Lee Ford

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

✦ Synopsis

REALbasic is an easy-to-learn, powerful, cross-platform programming language, allowing you to write powerful applications that can be distributed across Windows, Mac, and Linux. This is a classic, no-fluff, tutorial-based book, ideal for: - Anyone wanting to master REALbasic - Anyone wanting to get into programming and produce their own applications easily and painlessly - REALbasic is very easy to pick up - Experienced VB programmers wanting an alternative, now that Microsoft have discontinued support for it. REALbasic is very similar to VB. - Any level of programmer wanting to create applications that can be ported to Windows, Mac, and Linux REALbasic’s success is proven - there are already over 100,000 users, and this number is steadily growing. In a recent promotional effort, 35,000 Visual Basic developers downloaded a free copy of the Windows version of REALbasic, and REAL software has had many requests for decent beginning title on the subject. As far as we know, this is the only up-to-date book planned for the current version, REALbasic 2005, which matches that description. REAL software are enthusiastic about helping us sell the book.

✦ 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