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cubeSQL on sale for $99!

To celebrate the latest 4.3.0 release, cubeSQL Unlimited Connections is just $99 for a limited time! Normally this software sells for $599. The sale lasts just 72 hours, so you must hurry.

Product: cubeSQL 4.3.0

Platforms: All

Price: $99 (normally $599 for unlimited connections)

Website: http://www.sqlabs.com/cubesql_special_offer.php

MPCalc Plugin

MPCalc Plugin allows a Real Studio developer to design a multi-precision RPN calculator. It could handle numbers with up to 30,000 decimal digits. It could also handle numbers whose absolute values lie between 1e-65000000 and 1e+65000000. It is a Universal plugin for Mac OS X. Over forty scientific functions are now available. functions such as Bessel Functions, Fresnel Integrals, etc.

MPCalc Plugin now uses its own multi-precision engine fp. When the plugin used NTL, it had to have the GNU General Public License. Now it has a much more relaxed license.

Product: MPCalc Plugin

Platforms: All

Price: Free

Website: http://delaneyrm.com/MPCalcPlugin.html

Omegabundle 2012 for Real Studio Ends 9.10.2012; Adds $99 Icon Pack

The Omegabundle Group announces that Omegabundle for Real Studio, the package of development components valued at over $4,002 for only $399 will end September 10, 2012. This high value offering brings together the top 14 development tools for Real Studio developers. Customers who complete a survey also qualify for a professional icon pack valued at $99. Real Studio from Real Software is a complete development tool set for developing cross platform applications for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, using an advanced language. Omegabundle for Real Studio 2012 represents the best of the best add-ons, plugins and user tools available for building applications with Real Studio.

Omegabundle for Real Studio 2012 includes:

* App Wrapper. Much more than a GUI front end to Codesign and ProductBuild, it features high quality icon generation, visual Sandbox Entitlements, Help Validator and insertion, Zip compression and more - all the requirements for deploying applications on the Mac App Store

* Arbed - The Advanced RB Editor. Arbed lets you inspect, compare and edit projects. It can synchronize code you want to share between multiple projects, show your changes between saved project versions, convert your strings into localizable constants, perform complex search and replace operations by scripting them, and much more.

* Elastic Window. Using Elastic Window, developers can design windows with a particular look in mind and ensure it will maintain a uniform look no matter what size the user makes the window. A key tool for application usability.

* Valentina Studio Pro. Available on Windows, Mac OS X or Linux (select one), Valentina Studio Pro is a powerful administration tool and report design studio for popular databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite and Valentina DB.

* Franklin 3D Professional for Real Studio. Franklin 3D is a multi-platform cross-platform 3D engine for building games, simulations and 3D applications using your favorite RAD tool on Windows and Mac OS X.

* MBS Complete. The Monkeybread Software Real Studio plug-in collection is a big toolbox to help you solving your problems. Thousands of new functions will help you developing better applications using 50 plugins (10 more than the last time MBS was offered by Omegabundle).

* MBS DynaPDF Starter Edition. Work with PDF files on Mac, Windows and Linux. Support of 60 character sets, including 17 CJK character sets and Unicode; Font Subsetting; Text formatting, output of multi-column text; Multi-page TIFF support; Color spaces DeviceGray, DeviceRGB, DeviceCMYK; Native PDF for vector graphics and images; Vector graphics, Line Dash Patterns, Shadings, Patterns; Custom Page Templates; Web links, File links, Page links, Bookmarks; Named Destinations. No differentiation between client and server application. Unlimited Delivery.

* RS Developer Magazine. The only development magazine devoted exclusively to Real Studio development. This package includes all previously published issues plus a one-year subscription, for a total of 71 issues in digital format (PDF).

* TT's Zip Package. The Zip Package is a set of classes for reading and writing .zip files on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.

* Turner Icon Set. IconPeople Turner Icon Set Professional Edition provides you with a complete matching set of icons for your applications. Turner is a beautiful, cost effective and versatile set of 80 icons for your development projects.

* Valentina Office Server (Unlimited Connections). Valentina Office Server makes your business data more accessible, more usable - more valuable, with its advanced, blazingly fast object-relational columnar database and integrated professional reports server. Build your business around a database server that serves complex queries hundreds of times faster than the competition. Your choice of Mac OS X, Windows or Linux. Free iOS clients available!

* Valentina Reports ADK for Real Studio (Mac OS X, Windows, Linux). Valentina Reports for Real Studio is the best way to build business reporting right into your application - for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Supports grids, groups, sub-groups, charts, graphs, pictures, embedded web pages and more. Valentina Studio Pro. Manage all popular databases, such as MySQL, SQLite, Postgre and Valentina DB. Powerful SQL builder and visual reports designer. Do advanced administration of servers, and 12 months of free upgrades, including to the forthcoming Valentina 5.

* Mirye Software Shade 10 Standard. This suite of modeling, rendering and animation tools allow you to develop sophisticated 3D content for use with Franklin 3D game engine for Real Studio, or render easily maskable 3D icons and user interfaces.

* Valentina DB ADK+ for Real Studio. Incorporate the fastest embedded database solution with native drivers for Real Studio applications. Convert your legacy MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite or other databases over to Valentina DB and notice an exponential performance increase - its blazingly fast.

Product: Omegabundle 2012 for Real Studio

Platforms: All

Price: $399

Website: http://www.omegabundle.com

Real Software Announces Real Studio 2012 Release 1

Austin, Texas, USA (August 21, 2012) -- Real Software, creator of object-oriented, cross-platform software development tools for the web and desktop, today announced the latest version of its flagship product, Real Studio. Real Studio 2012 Release 1 contains a record 350 improvements and 3 new features: OS X Mountain Lion support, Webkit support for HTMLViewer on Windows and a new way for SQLite BLOBs that allows data in a BLOB to be added sequentially, making it much faster and more responsive. Additionally, this release significantly strengthens Real Studio's Cocoa support.

"Focusing on the quality updates that will improve Real Studio developer's efficiency and overall experience is one of our top priorities. This release is monumental for us because it includes the greatest number of improvements we have ever made to the product in any one release cycle, exponentially increasing product reliability," commented Geoff Perlman, Real Software Founder and CEO.

Perlman continues, "Cocoa support has been dramatically advanced with this release with over 65 specific improvements. Though still labeled beta, Cocoa works for 99% of our users when they simply recompile their projects. With more and more things becoming Cocoa only, our work on Cocoa support makes this transition easy for Real Studio developers."

"Real Studio Web Edition lets us develop and deliver distributed groupware solutions that would take much more time and money to develop as traditional multi-platform client/server applications," offered Brad Hutchings of Hutchings Software and NetForce, Inc. "This release of Real Studio offers enhancements and fixes that make it even more useful and valuable when developing for the web."

To learn more about Real Studio 2012 Release 1 check out the new video (http://www.realsoftware.com/movies/2012r1.php).

Real Studio 2012 Release 1 Features:

* OS X Mountain Lion Support: The Real Studio IDE and apps made with Real Studio will work on Mountain Lion, Apple's latest update to Mac OS X.

* Webkit Support for HTMLViewer: The HTMLViewer on Windows now uses Webkit, a layout engine that renders web pages in the browser.

* SQLite BLOB Support: A new way of handling BLOBs on SQLite is introduced in this release making it faster and more responsive.

Product: Real Studio 2012 Release 1

Platforms: All

Price: $99-$995

Website: http://www.realsoftware.com/download

MonkeyBread Software Releases the MBS Real Studio plugins in version 12.3

NICKENICH, Germany (August 7th, 2012)— Monkeybread Software releases version 12.3 of the MBS plug-in for Real Studio. The MBS plug-in comprises a collection of several plugin parts which extend the Real Studio development environment with 1,500 classes featuring over 42,000 documented functions. Our plugins support all three platforms Mac OS X, Windows and Linux with all project types desktop, web and console.

Some of the highlights on the 12.3 update:

The new plugins offer features for Mac OS X 10.8. A new MountainLion plugin offer classes for GameKit, User Notifications and Sharing Services. Other plugin parts have been updated for new features: Address book, StoreKit and CoreLocation with the new CLGeoCoderMBS class. The plugins also include functions for retina displays and supporting bigger icons.

The new Twain plugin allows you to talk to scanner devices which support the Twain standard on Mac OS X and Windows.

With our updated ChartDirector plugin (using version 5.1 of ChartDirector library), we now have new classes for 3D scatter chart with grouping. And we can have dynamic layers on top of a chart which can be used for track cursors.

We rewrote our OCR plugin with tesseract 3 library. This way we can now support more languages and get better result with more detailed results.

There are also Windows specific additions like the new WindowsPreviewHandlerMBS class for showing previews of common file types. For recording video/audio with DirectShow you can now receive live picture data to process it. Overlay windows can now be always on the top on Windows.

Finally we updated DynaPDF to version 3.0.17.46 and SQLAPI to version 4.0.1 and CURL to version 7.26.0 on Windows.

Product: MBS Real Studio plugins 12.3

Platforms: All

Price: $29-$299

Website: http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/realbasic/plugins.shtml

Ohanaware updates App Wrapper to 2.0.1

Jhangle, Pingtung, Taiwan (18th Jul, 2012)—Ohanaware Co., Ltd. Release their latest update to their product "App Wrapper" 2.0. App Wrapper is the tool that Ohanaware use to package their applications for the Mac App Store and their web site. App Wrapper is a simplified approach to performing meanial tasks that are required in order to distribute applications for Apple's Mac App Store and OS X Mountain Lion.

App Wrapper simplifies the process of Code Signing, Sandboxing, Compressing applications (via OS X Installer or Zip file), generating Retina Compatible High Resolution icons, and Help Documentation preparation. Reducing the time required to prepare applications for distribution via the Mac App Store or OS X Mountain Lion.

Code Signing and Sandboxing.

Code signing is required for both the Mac App Store and OS X Mountain Lion. App Wrapper's Code signing engine is capable of code signing helper apps, frameworks, plugins and AppleScripts. Sandboxing is required for the Mac App Store. App Wrapper 2.0 features a new GUI interface to simplify the specification of Entitlement keys and their values. It includes tools to help validate a Sandboxed application and to track down Sandbox violations.

Retina Compatible Application and Document Icons.

App Wrapper can add High Resolution ICNS files to the application bundle, or it can generate High Resolution ICNS files from almost any transparent image. App Wrapper also features a 'Document Icon Maker' that can generate (AHIG conforming) High Resolution ICNS files using the Application icon and a simple identifier. App Wrapper uses High Quality scaling to retain as much detail when generating icons at smaller sizes. When creating Retina compatible applications, App Wrapper can generate HiDPI ICNS files (dependant on the specified Minimum OS).

Apple Compatible Help.

App Wrapper can add a Help folder or Help file into the application bundle, and add the correct keys to the plist. Also featured is a Help Validator which will check the help documents for simple XHTML errors, broken links, missing images and other common errors.

Uniform Type Identifiers (UTI).

App Wrapper features functionality to add importable and exportable UTIs to an application, it includes a function that can generate a matching UTI from a document type. This enables developers to easily add support for "Document Packages".

Plist Editing.

Many required plist keys can be specified using the App Wrapper interface. For more advanced plist editing, App Wrapper includes a simple plist editor.

Apple About Box.

App Wrapper features GUI options for configuring the Apple About Box. Included in the App Wrapper help is code for Real Studio developers to use, that will display a genuine Apple About Box.

Auto Save and Restoration.

App Wrapper automatically saves the settings, restoring them when the application is re-opened in App Wrapper.

App Wrapper was made with Real Software's Real Studio and App Wrapper was used on App Wrapper, to generate the icons, validate and include the help, configure the about box, codesign the bundle and then to create the Zip compressed file.

Product: App Wrapper 2.0.1

Platforms: OSX

Price: $49.99

Website: http://www.ohanaware.com/

BKeeney Software Acquires Real Studio True North Software Products

Lenexa, Kansas, USA (July 30, 2012) -- BKeeney Software Inc. has announced that it has acquired the RealStudio portfolio of products from True North Software including...

- Formatted Text Control (FTC)

- RTF Parser

- RB Code Reports

- Spell Check Utilities (SCU)

- RBVersioner

- Obfuscate

- RB Linux Maker

- VInstaller

We are very excited to bring these products to BKeeney Software. These products represent years of quality work which we routinely use in our consulting work. These products are valued assets for the Real Studio community and we will continue to enhance these products. Brendan Murphy, from True North Software said, "I am glad Bob Keeney has chosen to acquire these products. He has the technical expertise and integrity to make these products flourish for years to come."

Product: True North Software Product

Platforms: All

Price: Varies

Website: http://www.bkeeney.com

TheBigUndo Public Beta

piDog Software is pleased to announce a new beta version of a new module, TheBigUndo. TheBigUndo is a RealStudio module to provide undo and redo functions to Real Studio apps on all three desktop platforms. Volunteers who provide feedback during the Beta will get a 50% discount if they decide to buy.

Product: TheBigUndo Beta 3

Platforms: All

Price: N/A

Website: http://www.pidog.com/TheBigUndo/TheBigUndo1.0b3.zip

Studio Stable Graphics is Ready

The first release of Studio Stable Graphics (SSG) is ready. It's a Real Studio plugin that adds methods for resizing and rotating pictures, with high quality, cross platform consistent results. SSG is an adaptation of Hutchings Software's 10 year old Component X Graphics plugin to Web Edition applications and the new alpha channel picture format introduced in Real Studio 2011r4.

Hutchings Software is using this in their own projects, and are happy to make it available to the Real Studio community. You can develop your app using the free trial version.

Product: Studio Stable Graphics

Platforms: All

Price: $49.95

Website: http://www.studiostable.com/graphics

Attached Window

Attached Window makes windows similar to Matt Gemmels "Attached Windows" (http://mattgemmell.com/2007/10/03/maattachedwindow-nswindow-subclass/). This class is based on the project EasyOverlayWindow from Monkeybread Software. Using the window:

- Add the 4 classes to your project.

- Add a property with the super "AttachedWindow" to the window you want to show the help for.

- In mouse enter make a new window. Properties are the direction (top, bottom, left and right), the text, and left and top where the window should appear

- In mouse exit hide the window

- The window can resize itself.

Product: Attached Window

Platforms: OSX

Price: Free

Website: http://www.mothsoftware.com/content/download-some-realbasic-related-stuff

RegExRX 1.6 with Better Real Studio Support

RegExRX is a regular expression development app and among its new features is better support for copying a pattern to Real Studio and pasting it back in. You can use the menu command to Copy Pattern As Real Studio (REALbasic) Code and paste directly into your app. What's new is that you can then highlight and copy the pattern, including quotes, EndOfLine, etc., and paste it back into RegExRX using the new Paste Pattern From Real Studio option and it will properly interpret it. This makes going back and forth between your code and RegExRX a snap.

There is also new support for 4D and JavaScript, a similar code-interpreter for AppleScript (Mac-only, of course), and better support for mode switches at the start of the pattern. For example, if you start the pattern with "(?i)", the Case Sensitive option under the Options menu will be dimmed and unchecked to indicate that you've overridden that option in your pattern. There's also colorization support for every PCRE token, even the really useless ones.

Product: RegExRX 1.6

Platforms: OSX / WIN

Price: $4.99

Website: http://www.mactechnologies.com/index.php?page=downloads#regexrx

Visual Foxpro to Real Studio Converter

Cully Technologies, LLC is pleased to announce the release of the Visual Foxpro to Real Studio Converter, version 0.2beta. The converter converts Visual Foxpro forms and their controls into Real Studio version control format. Currently, the converter doesn't convert the code behind the controls but it does honor the control names, and most of the layout.

The Real Studio project now properly identifies the forms as belonging to the project. More controls are converted such as the Option Groups and Image Controls. The method code for the forms and command buttons are converted into the Real Studio Windows, but are commented out. This should make it so you can manually convert your code into RealBasic. The source code for the converter is free and available for download for compiling in Visual Foxpro 9.

Product: Visual Foxpro to Real Studio Converter

Platforms: WIN

Price: Free

Website: http://cully.biz/2012/03/05/visual-foxpro-to-real-studio-converter-0-1beta/

Movie Draft

Thanks to the beauty of Real Studio's cross-compilation, Movie Draft screenplay software is now available for Windows (and outside of the Mac App Store for Mac users who'd prefer that).

Product: Movie Draft

Platforms: OSX / WIN

Price: $29.99

Website: http://www.moviedraft.com/us/download/

fp Plugin 5.1

fp Plugin 5.1 corrects a bug in fpLnFactorial which limited precision, and gives a better output precision to fpBigFactorial. Using Bob Delaney's fp multi-precision engine, fp Plugin for Real Studio adds three new data types: BigInteger, BigFloat, and BigComplex. Except for available memory, there is no limitation on the size of a BigInteger. So you can multiply a 100 digit integer by another 100 digit integer giving the exact 200 digit integer. BigFloat is a multi—precision floating point number. You can set both the internal precision and the decimal output precision for BigFloat, with no limitation except for available memory. It might take awhile, but you can now calculate pi in a REALbasic program to a million decimal places, or more. The power of 10 for BigFloat can range from about -600,000,000 to +600,000,000 as compared to -308 to +308 for a Double. BigComplex is composed of two BigFloats, so it uses BigFloat precision. fp Plugin itself allows you to construct programs which can handle the three data types much like doubles and integers are handled. To a large extent the plugin's data types can be freely used with the +, -, *, and / operators, and can be used in comparisons. And most of REALbasic's functions have been overloaded to take the plugin's data types, where it makes sense to do so.

Product: fp Plugin 5.1

Platforms: All

Price: Free

Website: http://homepage.mac.com/delaneyrm/fpPlugin.html

Custom Hosting For Real Studio Web Edition

QuickStartSoftware.com is pleased to announce custom hosting for Real Studio Web Edition. Our hosting plans come with custom software which allows you to easily deploy, manage, and monitor your web applications on our optimized hosting platform. We've taken a process that once required countless tools and simplified it into one application. This saves the developer time and money by allowing them to focus on making a great web application without having to worry about being a system administrator.

Product: Custom Hosting For Real Studio Web Edition

Price: N/A

Website: http://www.QuickStartSoftware.com/Hosting

K.A.T.T 1.4

KATT is a multimedia novelty app. It is a simple, yet fun program based off a certain car. KATT stands for Knight Advanced Technical Technician. KATT will play media files supported by Quicktime. Some of the visual candy include left and right 30 band visual EQ, power level, Mdometer (odometer), Scroller, Visualizer, and Voice box. KATT will automatically load files from your iTunes library or KATT's own folder. This version: Fixed a minor issue with the play button. Fixed a minor issue with bass and treble sliders. Reduced CPU usage while KATT is idle. Overhauled some graphical functions. Added 10 new visualizer FX Added change visualizer option,which allows KATT to change visualizer FX on each song or stay with currently selected one.

Product: K.A.T.T 1.4

Platforms: OSX

Price: Free

Website: http://erockus.home.mchsi.com//Mac/katt.zip

iSightCameraClass

iSightCameraClass is a Mac only Real Studio module and associated classes that allow you to easily add the ability to view and record movies from the built-in iSight camera on your desktop or laptop. It is built entirely with the QTKit framework that comes with your Mac. It requires that your Real Studio project be set to a Cocoa build, as it will not work for Carbon. OS X 10.5 or greater is required for it to function properly. Tested using RS 2011 R4 on Lion 10.7.2. It's encrypted, but you can license the source code for $30. The design requirement was to keep it simple and make it easy to use for the Mac Real Studio developer.

Product: iSightCameraClass

Platforms: OSX

Price: $30 (for source code)

Website: http://web.me.com/mauitom/Real_Studio_Projects/iSightCamera_Class.html

IP Address TextField

Jon Ogdon has put together a customized text field for creating a properly formatted IP address string. It forces the user to properly format the address and ends up automatically adding periods between the octets when necessary, restricting input where necessary, etc.

Product: IP Address TextField

Platforms: All

Price: Free

Website: http://downloads.justaddsoftware.net/RealStuff

iReminisce

iReminisce is a journal and diary application for individuals who demands simplicity, elegance and power. iReminisce lets users focus on their thoughts while still allowing attachments such as pictures, movies, music and documents with their entries and keeping them close to but away from the writing area. With iReminisce, users will be able to keep good and focused journal/diary entries without having to fight with the graphical user interface. The entire software was designed to make writing entries easy. iReminisce even automatically save everything users do, including keystrokes, so users can continue to write and not be distracted.

* Daily photo journaling so users will be able to see and playback how they look like at any given day in the past.

* Customizable color-coded categories gives users the ability to create their own categories.

* Mood system to let users "indicate" how they felt when they wrote the entry.

* "5 stars" rating system to help users organize the favorite (or least favorite) entries.

* Capability to enter entries to days that were missed (users can even enter entries into the future if they wish).

* Simple method to move entries to different dates.

* Drag and drop attachments to entries, includes a built-in viewer for all attachments, including movies and music.

Product: iReminisce

Platforms: OSX (Lion)

Price: $14.99

Website: http://www.lomation.com/ireminisce.html

UltraUpdater 1.4.0

LogicalVue Software today announced UltraUpdater 1.4.0, the incredibly easy way to add auto-update capability to your Real Studio applications. With UltraUpdater, only 2 lines of code are needed to add auto-update capability to your Real Studio applications. Your applications will be able to check if new versions are available, display a list of changes, and allow the user to download and launch the update.

Product: UltraUpdater 1.4.0

Platforms: All

Price: $19.95 (includes source code)

Website: http://www.rbdevzone.com/ultraupdater/

CodeVue 1.0

LogicalVue Software, Inc. announces the availability of CodeVue 1.0. CodeVue is a code snippet manager for Real Studio developers. CodeVue Features include:

* Full syntax highlighting for the RealBasic language

* Automatically saves and manages an unlimited amount of scripts

* Support for script notes

* Fully copy/paste capability

* Automatically create new code snippet from clipboard contents.

Product: CodeVue 1.0

Platforms: Mac (via App Store)

Price: $4.99 (current sale price)

Website: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/codevue/id475421955?mt=12

RB Package Maker

RB Package Maker is an application for Real Studio developers who want to prepare their Apps for the Mac App Store. With it's new release 2.0, RB Package maker closes the gap for Cocoa applications. As of November 1st, Apple requires all new apps to be Cocoa compliant. RB Package maker makes the handling of Entitlements a snap. Click the rights needed for your application, and RB Package Maker signs the application bundle with this required entitlements. If your App is already in the Mac AppStore, you need to move support files like databases or data files from 'outside' the sandbox into the sandbox. RB Package Maker supports this as well and helps you to 'sandbox' all files your application needs. The new version supports:

* Code signing

* Sandbox Entitlement keys

* Sandbox Migration of files

* Correction of various data in Real Studio App Bundles (like Icon Name, PKG Name, Version format, PList data etc)

* and finally Packaging.

The 'Sandboxing' part makes RB Package Maker one of the few, if not the only application of this kind, which fully automates the whole process for RB developers. This is all done with a couple of mouse clicks in one or two minutes. To get an idea of how it works, interested customers can watch a two-minute video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIyH_4ruNlY) demonstrating the process. The demo app is partly functional, as the final signing and packaging process is disabled.

Product: RB Package Maker

Platforms: OSX

Price: $18.95

Website: http://www.bluecolin.com/rb/

Advanced Email Sockets Available

Infinity Data Systems is pleased to announce the release of advanced email sockets for Real Studio. A completely native solution, Infinity's sockets are based on four years of development on the MailForge email client. All three sockets, POP3, SMTP and IMAP, all go far beyond the built-in sockets, both in features and performance. Improvements include: - STARTTLS Support - UIDL Support - CRAM-MD5 Authorization (currently requires Einhugur plugins) - Improved Buffering (maintains performance when downloading large emails) - Improved ISP Compatibility. Sockets are available either encryped or open. Because Infinity's primary commercial application is an email client, licensees can be assured of ongoing support, improvements and updates.

Product: Advanced Email Sockets

Platforms: All

Price: Single Socket: $50/$75 (closed/open); All Sockets: $125/$175 (closed/open)

Website: http://infinitydatasystems.com/products/code/

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