CHAPTER 1 AN INTRODUCTION TO REALBASIC (Web site domain) What
CHAPTER 1 AN INTRODUCTION TO REALBASIC What Can REALbasic Do? As previously stated, REALbasic provides you with all the tools you need to create world-class commercial software, or to create your own custom applications or computer games. If you can imagine it, you can build it using REALbasic. For example, using REALbasic, you can create Desktop applications Utility programs Background programs and services Computer games Database applications Internet client applications Internet web server applications One of the things that makes REALbasic a powerful software development tool is it hides most of the complexity involved in the creation of applications. REALbasic does this by automatically taking care of core application functionality. For example, when you create a REALbasic application, you needn t worry about how to create a window or a PushButton control. REALbasic automatically provides you with these resources and takes care of making sure that they work, as you d expect. By abstracting so much OS functionality, REALbasic greatly simplifies the application development process. As a result, you ll find you can create applications that can perform tasks such as creating reports and text files on Macintosh, Windows, and Linux OSs without having to concern yourself with the differences in the ways each of the OSs works with these types of resources. Similarly, REALbasic also masks the complexities of working with graphics and network resources, enabling you, instead, to focus on developing the higher level functionality provided by your application. What s New in REALbasic? REALbasic 2006 is the most current version of REALbasic. It is backwards-compatible with previous versions, meaning you should be able to compile and run any application created using a previous version of REALbasic with little, if any, modifications or problems. Starting with REALbasic 2005, a number of new bells and whistles were added that are not found in previous versions. Highlights of some of the more interesting new features, include A new browser-styled IDE. REALbasic s IDE now has the look and feel of an Internet browser that supports tabbing, complete with controls for navigating forward and backward (such as are found in the FireFox browser). The new IDE also helps to provide more room to work by making it easier to share space with various IDE windows and screens. Support for multiple projects. REALbasic now provides the capability to open up and work with multiple projects at the same time. This makes copying and pasting code between your applications easier.
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