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Issue 8.2

COLUMN

Basic RB Controls, Part 2

Working with radio buttons, checkboxes, and other "simple" controls

Issue: 8.2 (January/February 2010)
Author: Marc Zeedar
Author Bio: Marc taught himself programming in high school when he bought his first computer but had no money for software. He's had fun learning ever since.
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In my last column I began discussing basic REALbasic controls by exploring RectControl, the parent object of almost all REALbasic controls. In object-oriented programming, understanding the parent means understanding the children. But of course the children have their own special characteristics and unique features, so we need to look at them to see how to use those capabilities.

Simple Controls

To begin our control exploration, we'll start with the simpler controls and make our way toward the more complicated. (This will be a multi-part series.)

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