The plist class for REALbasic allows you to maintain an Apple-standard plist preferences file in REALbasic app. You can easily maintain plist files from the simple to the complex and the preferences are kept in memory. Therefore, when your application quits, just call the Save method and the preferences will be saved.
The preferences menu on Mac OS X is traditionally located under the application menu. In this quick tutorial we will learn how can we add fast this kind of option under the Mac application menu using REALbasic. Watch it, learn it, enjoy it!
REALbasic offers a Speak Method that allows us to use the computer’s speech synthesizer to pronounce the passed text string (Windows and Macintosh only). It’s very easy to use so lets look how Speak Method work.
MagicSpeller for REALbasic is a collection of a REALbasic objects for use within the REALbasic development environment. Using MagicSpeller, a developer can easily add a full-featured spell checker into their project in just a few minutes.
In this quick tutorial we will learn how to hide our REALbasic application icon from Mac Dock. The method to doing this is outside the REALbasic IDE, but it’s very easy to do (works with every app). Watch it, learn it, enjoy it!
iSightCamera Class is a freeware (but encrypted) way to get the video from build in Mac iSight Camera into our REALbasic application. The demo project shows how to use the class, called iSightCameraClass. Tested on Mac OS 10.5 and 10.6.
REAL Software is working hard to create a new platform layer for REALbasic based on Cocoa, the API for Mac OS X. Some of you are probably interested if REALbasic 2009 Release 5 will offer a option to build Cocoa applications…
REALbasic City is a part of TUTSPOLIS where you can find tutorials about creating cross-platform software for Mac, Windows and Linux using REALbasic 2009. Learn a object-oriented dialect of the BASIC programming language and create your own games and software such as browsers, periodic tables, catalogs for your
personal book library, e-mail clients, weather clients, instant messengers, unarchivers etc.
