This tutorial (for Premium Members) will show you how to create in REALbasic a round search control with focus option when it’s active. To get this effect we won’t use any declaration and this way we will have a crossplatform search field that looks cool not only on Mac OS. Watch it, learn it, enjoy it!
Before we start this tutorial I like to show you a Class named Mac OS X Search Field. The Rounded Search field is a very standard user interface element in Mac OS X. This class brings the true HISearchField to REALbasic. Mac OS X Search Field Class supports the full range of search field features, such as live search, search menu, and cancel button, but there is one problem… it’s using Cocoa declarations and it’s only available for Mac users. If you like to try it you can visit The ZAZ Studios website.
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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.
I know this uses carbon declares, but is it possible for you to port this to windows?
Hello Steve,
I show in this tutorial how can you make this kind of effect on Linux and Windows without Cocoa declarations (on the little screenshot you see the final effect). My search field example doesn’t have such features like search menu or cancel button, but this can be implemented using my other tutorials for example the menu: http://realbasic.tutspolis.com/tutorials/creating-popup-and-contextual-menu-in-realbasic/
PS
Maybe in free time I will create a RBCSearch Class