REALbasic News by Seth Willits February 15, 2006

REALbasic Development

FMOD Ex Audio Class v0.3b
FMOD Ex is a cross platform audio library that supports a wide range of audio formats and playback options, including a physically correct 3D audio engine. The FMOD Ex Audio Classes are free and open source classes for REALbasic 5.5 and higher that hook into FMOD Ex and implement a subset of its functionality via familiar REALbasic style interfaces. Release v0.3b addresses compatibility issues that arose due to recent changes within the FMOD Ex library. The FMOD Ex Audio Classes build for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux.

Data-On-Demand ListBox v1.2
The Data-On-Demand ListBox is a subclass of the native REALbasic ListBox and, as far as the end-user is concerned, will behave in the same way. The key difference for the programmer is that the Data-On-Demand ListBox does not store any data. Rather, it is a "virtual" ListBox that relies on you, the programmer, to provide data, row-by-row, as requested. As a result, the Data-On-Demand ListBox is much faster at populating thousands of rows and, because you maintain the data, does not require you to coordinate changes from the data in your database to the ListBox. Licenses are available for $50 per developer.

PCFormat Magazine Contains Free 5.2.4 for Windows
PCFormat has a multipage article on REALbasic as well as a free copy of REALbasic for Windows standard edition 5.2.4 on the cover CD. This is the third magazine in our publicity campaign in the UK and the second PC magazine to offer REALbasic articles and inclusion on the cover cd. PCPlus is on sale in selected markets outside of the UK as well. Nova is working to develop the UK market and increase the awareness for REALbasic as a serious development tool for Windows users. If you are outside of Europe, please contact Gwen at REALsoftware (gwen@realsoftware.com) for details regarding this campaign.

Made With REALbasic

Footlights v2.0
Footlights is a video player, organizer and converter with a host of advanced features, including: Full screen playback, adjustable playback speed, transparent movie windows, a searchable thumbnail movie list and the ability to adjust gamma, brightness, contrast and rotation in playing videos. Video exporting is available by upgrading to Footlights Pro. Version 2.0 brings a new thumbnail movie view and realtime video playback effects (such as gamma, brightness and video rotation). A new license for Footlights Pro is available for $14.95.

PictoGrab v1.1
PictoGrab is an automated picture downloading utility empowering anybody to quickly and easily download pictures from any website, or photocast, to any folder. Minimum/Maximum file size and search depth can also be set. New to version 1.1 is full support for Photocasts, which allows users to drop the link to a Photocast onto PictoGrab to quickly download all pictures that it contains. Version 1.1 also contains performance and usability improvements. A new user license for PictoGrab is available for $14.95.

TaskTime4 v4.1.1
TaskTime4 provides a straightforward method of tracking time spent on jobs you do for your clients. It can generate personalized invoices which can be emailed, printed, and saved to disk. Other important features include: project status tracking, Address Book integration for adding clients, linking of related resources to projects for easy reference, project expenses tracking, ability to bill for flat rate items, scheduled and manual data backup, minimizing of project windows to small floating time controllers, and much more. TaskTime4 is Shareware. The registration fee is $20 ($5 to upgrade for registered users of versions prior to 4.0).