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4-25-03
Guessing Game by
Erick Tejkowsi
Did you know that your Mac can read minds? This week we'll witness the extraordinary mind-reading powers of your Mac by
creating a simple REALbasic project. See if you can figure out how it works before looking at the code!
Downloads
Because the code for this demo is drop-dead simple, there isn't really any reason to cover the process of putting an interface together.
Check one of the previous tutorials if you are a complete REALbasic newbie. The fact is, this project doesn't have any tricky code
at all. The trick lies in the mathematical content of the application, not the code itself. If you don't care to look at the code, you can also download
a binary.
4-23-03
REALbasic News
by Erick Tejkowsi
Frequency for Mac OS 9
Brad Rhine released a new utility for sending content updates to Blogger websites.
Frequency reduces the time it takes to update users' Blogger websites by eliminating
the need log into Blogger's web-based update system. This is the first version to support Mac OS 9.
SceneBench
SceneBench is a 3D scene editing and model viewing utility for Macintosh. It
has extensive support for mouse-based, "live" direct manipulation -- you can
drag and drop not only the elements of your scene, but also most aspects of
the REALbasic 3D API, while you watch the effects in real time.
The latest pre-release version is available for free.
PlugIn Serial Coder
Plugin Serial Coder is a tool to protect the REALbasic plugin licences that you've paid good money for
by encoding them to make it harder [hopefully impossible] to crack* the plugin registration details
out of your built applications. Currently Plugin Serial Coder will encode for Valentina & MBS Plugin.
PlugIn Serial Coder has been released under the GNU GPL & available from:
ResizeWidget 1.3
ResizeWidget 1.3 is now available from Quantum Meruit.
ResizeWidget is a cross-platform RB control that allows users to drag-resize controls in a window.
ResizeWidget uses control binding, a REALbasic visual programming feature, to make using it as easy as possible for developers.
SelectableStaticText
Owen Yamauchi has posted an update to his
SelectableStaticText.
SelectableStaticText is a Canvas subclass that simulates a control unavailable to REALbasic on Mac OS X.
It looks like a StaticText, but it has selection capabilities similar to those of an EditField.
It allows text dragging, it can resize itself to the optimal height and width to contain the text, and it is cross-platform.
ResourceAccesor
Brady from The La Jolla Underground had just finished adding data fork based resource files and bundle resource editing
to ResFool when he thought that he would share the code that
he uses to access this data.
It is a collection of Free REALbasic classes that implement a ResourceAcesor API.
It's similar, but not identical to, the built-in resource fork class.
It allows you to access resources in the resource fork, resources in a data fork resource file or resources
stored as individual files in a bundle in the same way. You can even get access to your main bundle
(if you are bundled) which provides access to the individual localized and non-localized files,
as well as any resources stored in data fork resource files (must be named .rsrc).
There is also a good amount for CoreFoundation code wrapped in classes that may be of interest (CFURL, CFBundle, CFString, etc).
No plugins required - all the code is written in Native Rb using declares.
Bible Reader Free
Hiddenfield Software announced the first pre-release of their newest software, Bible Reader Free.
Bible Reader Free is a free Bible viewing application for Mac OS X, giving access to multiple books/chapters at the same time. Features include the ability to search for words across all or select parts of the Bible, and apply 'swaps' automatically (where one word can be changed for another - like 'you' for 'thee').
Two translations are currently provided (King James and Basic Bible English), with more to come.
Bible Reader Free is, as its name says, free software.
4-16-03
REALbasic News
by Erick Tejkowsi
StandardAlert
Charles Yeomans has announced a minor upgrade of
his StandardAlert class.
Version 1.61 now uses text encodings when running in OS X and
thus correctly displays non-English text for using other languages.
NOTE: This version will compile in REALbasic 5 only.
DoubleSlider Plugin
Alfred Van Hoek has posted an announcement for his DoubleSlider Plugin.
It contains 2 controls, including a double slider and a single
slider in medium and small sized flavors.
Note: The plugin can only be used with REALbasic 5 OSX Jaguar on a composite
window.
TimelineAnnual
TimeLineAnnual is a small freeWare canvas-based class from muteAnt that will display a range of years in a scolling type canvas.
The end user controls the canvas by clicking on forward and back buttons to each side of the timeline. Clicking on a date generates an event to hook into your code.
Amongst its many features are the abillities to set individual widths for each year entry in the timeline, control the font, fontcolour and background colour, and to supply your own graphics for the end buttons. The timeline is fully resizable and works on all flavours of OS, especially OSX and Windows XP.
The class comes in a project with code to show how everything works.
Frequency for Mac OS X
Brad Rhine today released a new utility for sending content updates to Blogger websites.
Frequency reduces the time it takes to update users' Blogger websites by eliminating
the need log into Blogger's web-based update system.
A demo version of Brad Rhine's Frequency is available for free
download from his web site. The demo version gives users
unlimited access to all features of the program. Frequency is
currently available for Mac OS X, with versions for Mac OS 9 and Windows in development.
Declare Code for Windows
Looking for that perfect little Declare snippet to spruce up the Window's version of your REALbasic app?
This site has a bunch of examples for you to use and/or modify. They also link to the Win32 API so you can experiment
with other Declare code.
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