Usage of REALbasic gtCalendar

To use the calendar control simply drag the gtCalendar control object and supporting graphics directory into your project. In the window editor drag the gtCalendar control onto your window. The control was designed at a size of 224 (width) and 180 (height). It will scale to fit any canvas size although the font size will not adjust – about 80% (180 x 144) is the smallest practical size.

The arrows at the left and right top corners of the calendar, when clicked on with the mouse, moves to the previous and next months. Holding the SHIFT key while clicking on the arrows moves to the previous and next year while the month remains constant.

More informations

gtCalendar home page
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ImagePlay screenshot:

ImagePlay is a nondestructive image editor based around “chaining” effects together. No more mucking with pixels and brushes. Simply apply the effect you want and see the results. You can even save your favorite effect groups for repeated use. It use ImagePlay Effects Library for REALbasic.

More informations

ImagePlay Effects Library home page
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Amazon Web Services in REALbasic applications

This FREE OPEN SOURCE class library also comes with the project source code for a fully-functional Amazon-powered application, which you can reuse in your own REALbasic projects!

WSL-Amazon key features:

• Search by Keyword, ASIN, UPC, Author, Artist/Musician, Actor/Actress, Film Director, Manufacturer, Similar Products, Listmania ID, Wishlist ID, or special Text Stream Phrases.
• Search All of Amazon or choose from specific Category filters such as Books, Music, DVD, Software, and many others.
• Retrieves extensive product details, including product images.
• Supports the US, UK, German, French, Canadian, and Japanese Amazon stores.
• Display Customer Reviews.
• Get Ratings as either an Integer (Number) or Picture (Stars).
• Show related Accessories, Listmania Lists and Similar Products.
• Display Third-Party Marketplace Offers for a selected product.
• Unicode-savvy: receives Amazon data in UTF-8 format.
• Includes project source code for a fully-functional Amazon-powered application.

More informations

WSL-Amazon home page
WSL-Amazon for REALbasic

From the author of OpenGL Control

Hey guys, I just finished up working on some OpenGL Control Classes to use with rb and am opening them up to the public. I really want these to be customizable for use in any game so feel free to download, use, alter and offer up suggestions to improve them

The OpenGL Code is cross-platform so Mac & Windows programmers are welcome. One note for Mac users, there has been a couple cases of the thread running too quickly and locking up the app, if this happens just change the thread to a timer and remove the do & loop.

More informations

OGL Controls home page
OGL Controls for REALbasic

plist and plistDict classes for REALbasic

As you have already noticed, there are two classes used in plist. The plist class handles loading, saving, and error reporting while the plistDict class contains the data of the preferences file and all the methods to manipulate the data. When you download the ZIP file of plist Class you will get access to some REALbasic examples and a PDF documentation.

More informations

plist Class for REALbasic home page
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Quick Look

Quick Look allows users to look at the contents of a file in the Finder at full or near-full size, depending on the size of the document relative to the desktop. It can view files including, but not limited to: PDFs, HTML, QuickTime readable media, ASCII and RTF text documents, Apple Keynote, Pages and Numbers, ODF documents, Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files (including OOXML), RAW camera images.

RBCQuickLook Class for REALbasic

Here is a example how to use RBCQuickLook Class in our REALbasic project. Of course you can access any files types supported by Quick Look. Enjoy it!

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Dim QuickLook As New RBCQuickLook
 
QuickLook.Preview("/Users/qbap/Documents/REALbasic.pdf") //file or folder location

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RBCAppleScript Class simple example

First add your RBCAppleScript Class to Project Tab and you reedy to rock. In this example we will tell application iTunes to play the music. If it’s not running then iTunes will automatically start.

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Dim applescript As New RBCAppleScript
Dim ascode As String
 
ascode= "tell application ""iTunes"" to play"
applescript.Run(ascode)

RBCAppleScript Class receive data from AppleScript

Using RBCAppleScript is also extremely easy to receive the data from AppleScript using RBCAppleScript.Result method. For example we can use AppleScript to get the name of every person from our Address Book app. This code will do this and display the received data in MsgBox, but a better way is adding it to a Array.

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Dim applescript As New RBCAppleScript
Dim ascode As String
 
ascode= "tell application ""Address Book"" to get the name of every person"
applescript.Run(ascode)
 
MsgBox applescript.Result

Run multiline AppleScript in REALbasic

RBCAppleScript allows you also to run multiline AppleScript code. To define next line use EndOfLine function like in this example:

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Dim applescript As New RBCAppleScript
Dim ascode As String
 
ascode= "tell app ""Finder""" + EndOfLine + "'Activate'" + EndOfLine + "display dialog ""REALbasic City""" + EndOfLine + "end"
 
applescript.Run(ascode)
 
MsgBox applescript.Result

The original AppleScript looks so:

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tell application "Finder"
	activate
	display dialog "REALbasic City"
end tell

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Custom Frames for REALbasic

Custom Frames is a little experiment, and an old one as well, where Alex Restrepo was building little “windows” within a canvas to display different types of information. You can minimize and maximize the frames, display strings, progressbars, pictures and a tree-like group of strings, but you just need to implement an interface to display your own objects. The updated version offers 2 types of objects included: text and graphics, however it is dead simple to add your own objects.

More informations

Alex Restrepo home page
Download Custom Frames RBP example

Growl Notification System in action

Growl is a very popular and powerful Mac OS system notification used by many kind of software (Firefox, Skype, Adium, Coda, Espresso, Transmission). Some time ago I showed you how to integrate Growl notification system with REALbasic using AppleScript and .scpt file. Now there is a RBCGrowl Class that give you the same effect but it’s more inside your app. I hight recommend to using it! If you are a Premium Member you can download it for free, and if not then as REALbasic City Member you can get access to download for 2 USD (PayPal).

RBCGrowl Class for REALbasic example

Here you can see a nice example showing how to use RBCGrowl Class in REALbasic. This Class is available only on Mac OS because Growl is created for Mac only. Hope you will enjoy it!

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Dim growl As New RBCGrowl
 
growl.Notification("REALbasic","Firefox","Title","Description") //(application name to register in growl preferences panel, app name for icon display, title to display, description to display
 
if growl.Result < > "" then //if Growl isn't running then display the info
    
    MsgBox growl.Result
 
else //do nothing if Growl is working correctly
end

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RBCSpeach Class example

RBCSpeach Class is compatible only with Mac OS. Here is example how can you use this Class. Hope you will enjoy it, and thank you one more time for supporting REALbasic City! You can save the audio only to Aiff format, but when it’s done you can for example convert it to MP3 using iTunes.

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Dim s As New RBCSpeech
 
s.ConvertTextFileToAudio("Users/qbap/Desktop/text.txt","Users/qbap/Desktop/audio.aiff") //(where the text file is in String,  where save audio file in String) 
 
s.SpeakString ("I like REALbasic City! Please love me") //(some string)
 
s.ReadFile("Users/qbap/Desktop/text.txt") //(where the text file is in String)
 
s.SaveStringToAiff("I like REALbasic City!","Users/qbap/Desktop/audio.aiff") //(some string,  where save audio file)

RBCSpeach stop Method

If you are opening a long text file and you like to Stop reading you can use the RBCSpeach.Stop Method. Here is a example how can you use it:

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Dim s As New RBCSpeech
 
s.Stop

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