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3-7-02
REALbasic Tile Mixer by
Erick Tejkowski
Today we have a "do-it-yourself" REALbasic project for you to download.
No fancy tutorial; no detailed instructions; just pure, raw code.
It's a fun game to play too!
Intro and Download
Today's project is fairly lengthy, so it didn't make much sense to run through the endless lines of code. Sometimes its
easier to just download the project and look at the code yourself. There is nothing in the Mixer Tile Mixer project
that hasn't been covered on ResExcellence before, so if you are really in need of explanations, search though some of the
older projects.
The idea behind today's project is to build a simple game like you may have encountered as a child.
The game emulates those little plastic tile sliding games. In the game you manipulate a grid of squares that
contain a picture, until you recreate the picture. This version is better, though, since it lets you load in any picture
and also keeps track of your moves for you. And, like an expert gamer, it will also show you the solution to the puzzle if
you decide to give up.
Download the REALbasic Tile Mixer project here or if you're just in it for the games, download the game only
[Classic Mac OS or Mac OS X].
Have fun and see you next week!
3-12-02
REALbasic News
by
Erick Tejkowski
RB3D Tip
If you are using RB3D (the 3D graphics environment in REALbasic 3.5 or
later) and have a Mac with the NVIDIA graphics card, you'll want to download
the new drivers recently made available by Apple. A bug in the previous
drivers caused the Mac to crash in certain situations if RB3D was running in
the IDE or if you were accessing an RB3D object in a compiled application.
You can download the updated NVIDIA drivers from Apple here.
New REALbasic 4.5 Alpha
The third alpha of REALbasic 4.5 is now available for download. The download package also contains the
previous release notes from 4.5a1 and 4.5a2. It has some new beeps and buzzes, a new Preferences dialog, and some other goodies, so don't miss it!
YAXML Parser: GMXMLParser
Yet Another XML Parser for REALbasic.
This one's a plugin, and is based off the expat project. It compiles for
PPC, Carbon and Windows.
Writer 2.6
KennettNet are pleased to announce the release of Writer 2.6 for Mac OS
8.5 - 9.x.x and for Mac OS X. This is a major update to the popular text
editing programs, which are made with REALbasic.
Writer is a small text editor with a few extra features, such as an
internet dictionary and the ability to scale images before inserting
them into your documents. Writer will attempt to open any file at all,
and possible uses for this include rescuing raw text from damaged Word
files.
Lua Plugin
The Lua Plugin we mentioned last week now comes with complete source code, so check it out.
Lua Plugin and its source can be found here.
Make a Bundle!
Jon Daniels and Wil Cosgrove have put together
BundleMaker. BundleMaker creates Application Bundles. Simply drag an application onto
its icon in the Finder, in the Dock, or the BundleMaker window.
The Preferences define which components to include in the bundle:
- Application (data fork)
- Application.icns (OSX Icons)
- Application.rsrc (resource fork)
- PkgInfo
- Info.plist
Alternatively, the data and resource forks can be exported by themselves
instead of into an Application Bundle hierarchy. This version adds working
preferences and a more advanced GUI.
Monkey See, Monkey Do
Monkeybread Software Germany (MBS) is proud to announce the new utility
App Optimizer 2.0.
App Optimizer is a new utility to create system extensions and control
panels with Realbasic applications. Just drop your app on App Optimizer
and choose a new target:
- MacOS Application
- MacOS Extension
- MacOS Control Panel
- MacOS Finder Replacement
- MacOS Desk Accessory
- MacOS X Application
- MacOS X Extension
- Windows Application
- Windows Screensaver
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