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Issue 7.4

NEWS

News

Issue: 7.4 (May/June 2009)
Article Description: No description available.
Article Length (in bytes): 27,821
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Article Number: 7401
Related Web Link(s):

http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/realbasic/plugins.shtml
http://www.ebutterfly.com/stimulus/
http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/realbasic/plugins.shtml
http://homepage.mac.com/delaneyrm/OMMs.html
http://www.einhugur.com/
http://seeditmaxi.cachefly.net/rb/FullKeyboardAccess.zip
http://www.realsoftware.com/download
http://www.einhugur.com/EinhugurReports/
http://code.google.com/p/rbrw-core/
http://www.scattersoft.com/downloads/AquaticPrimePlugin.zip
http://www.truenorthsoftware.com/FormattedTextControl/FormattedTextControl.html
http://homepage.mac.com/delaneyrm/fpPlugin.html
http://www.rbdeveloper.com/renew/
http://www.ebutterfly.com/helplogic/
http://www.benandruby.com/bens_software/RBstuff.html
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/JeremK/
http://seeditmaxi.cachefly.net/
http://www.qedit.com.au/
http://www.rothsoft.ch/realbasic/rsreport/
http://www.maxvalle.com/AppleRemoteClass.zip
http://www.arbp.org
http://homepage.mac.com/alexrestrepo
http://www.logicalvue.com/sqlite/sqlite.html

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MBS Plugins 9.3

The MBS plug-in comprises a collection of several plug-in parts which extend the REALbasic development environment with 1500 classes featuring over 28000 documented functions. The plug-ins require REALbasic 5.5 or newer. New in 9.3 are: SQL plugin for accessing multiple SQL databases (Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, DB2, Sybase, Informix, InterBase, SQLBase, MySQL, PostgreSQL and ODBC, SQLite); new GraphicsMagick plugin; updated SQLAPI to sqlapi-3.7.28rc3; updated DynaPDF to version 2.0.45.445; updated LCMS Library to version 1.18; updated ChartDirector to version 5.0.1; added more filter functions to the PictureMBS class: UnsharpFilter, BoxBlurFilter, TransferFilter, GammaFilter, StampFilter, SolarizeFilter, GainFilter and DitherFilter; more LCMS classes and functions; methods to QTKitMovieMBS to work with REALbasic movies; QTMovieExporterMBS.SetSoundFormat; MacShowAboutBoxMBS function; SystemInformationMBS.Is64bitWindows; Improved ScreenshotRectMBS; Removed support for Mac OS Classic and Mac OS Carbon PEF targets; Removed support for REALbasic versions before 2006r4; More CoreGraphics methods are console safe.

Monkeybread Software Plugin for REALBasic

Platforms:

OSX / WIN

Price:

200 Euros (complete set); 20 Euros and up (per component)

Website:

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

Save 50% on Stimulus 4.5

lectric Butterfly, Inc. proudly announces the release of Stimulus 4.5 for Mac OS X, the popular media browser that provides an easy way to manage and enjoy your personal collection of digital music, photos, and video clips. Save 50% off for a limited time only. Tired of importing your media files into proprietary photo album and catalog formats? Tired of juggling between multiple applications just to enjoy your library of digital media files? Discouraged by the expensive prices of media management software? Stimulus is your solution. With support for 27 popular file formats, Stimulus works intuitively like a file browser, allowing you to select and view/play all of your favorite images, audio files, and video clips from where they reside on your hard drive. Rename, move, and delete files to organize your digital life. Play slideshows, add favorites to custom lists, adjust audio bass & treble settings, search, print, zoom, rotate, convert/save images, add image effects, and much more. The new 4.5 version includes: New Image Effects editor. Enhance your images with 12 cool effects such as Blur, Sharpen, Brightness, Contrast, Color Levels, and more. Image editing is never done to the original file, so all editing and export saves are non-destructive. Images can now be exported in various file formats such as JPEG, PNG, PICT, TIFF, and more. Refined several UI elements, plus dozens of minor bug fixes and improvements.

Product:

Stimulus 4.5

Platforms:

OSX

Price:

$9.95 US (regularly $19.95)

Website:

http://www.ebutterfly.com/stimulus/

Academic MBS DynaPDF plugin

Monkeybread Software now offers the DynaPDF plugin for REALbasic with discounts for academic users. This plugin is the ultimate solution for every REALbasic developer for the best PDF support in their applications. Academic licenses are valid for students, teachers, and administrators who use DynaPDF for nonprofit, educational purposes. The academic license does not apply to non-profit organizations and government organizations that are not specifically academic in nature. Administrative organizations, such as school districts, are eligible for the academic license.

Monkeybread Software DynaPDF Plugin for REALBasic

Platforms:

OSX / WIN

Price:

Lite License: 299/599 Euro (Academic/Commercial); Pro License: 499/999 Euro (Academic/Commercial); Enterprise License: 1499 Euro (Commercial only)

Website:

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

OMMs 3.0

OMMs stands for "One Million Monkeys" (as in "One million monkeys typing on one million typewriters...") and is a game that allows the application itself to find English words from the "words" typed by a monkey. These words come from Webster's 2nd International dictionary. With a binary search method, the words are found almost instantaneously. With "no" to spaces the typewriters have 1000 keys, 73 with 'a', 9 with 'b', ... , 19 with 'y', and 1 with 'z'. These are average frequencies for English text. There are no punctuation keys. With "yes" to spaces the 1000 keys are adjusted to allow spaces between words, with an average of about five letters per word.You set the number of characters to be typed in the "Chars. typed" box. Choose "yes" or "no" for spaces. Select the monkey type in the Popup menu, and, if necessary, enter a numerical value for x. Then click on the "Monkey Types" button, and, perhaps after some noticeable time, you will see the characters typed by the monkey.

Product:

OMMs 3.0

Platforms:

All

Price:

Free

Website:

http://homepage.mac.com/delaneyrm/OMMs.html

PictureButton Plugin 1.0

A brand new plugin, PictureButton 1.0, has been released as part of the Einhugur Plugin pack. Do you want to have your application looking good and not out of place on all platforms? The PictureButton gives you native look and feel on all platforms. Do you want full keyboard access when turned on on Mac to actually work? Supports menus and submenus. Menus can have images on the menu items. Works properly with masked images on all platforms.

Product:

PictureButton Plugin 1.0

Platforms:

All

Price:

$199 (for full plugins package with one year of free upgrades)

Website:

http://www.einhugur.com/

FullKeyboardAccess Module

This module fixes a lot of issues when using Full Keyboard Access on/off. New Examples: Added bevelbutton with menu items. Added TabPanel Window ( available in the Test menu ) that showing one focus fix when Full Keyboard Access is on. Added Slider Window ( available the Test menu ) that shows some fixes that have to be done to get it to work.

Product:

FullKeyboardAccess Module build 0.0.3

Platforms:

OSX

Price:

Free

Website:

http://seeditmaxi.cachefly.net/rb/FullKeyboardAccess.zip

REALbasic 2009 Release 2

REAL Software, creator of REALbasic, a cross-platform development tool for creating software for Mac, Windows and Linux, is now shipping REALbasic 2009 Release 2. This release includes more than 70 improvements and 18 new features, including COM automation support for Windows and support for MySQL. Additionally, this release launches a new edition of REALbasic, REAL Studio, that is geared specifically for full-time commercial software developers. COM Automation Support: Applications can take control of any other Windows application that supports COM automation. MySQL Support: The Community Edition (free) of MySQL is now officially supported. REAL Studio Edition: REAL Studio is a new edition of REALbasic created specifically for full-time, professional developers.

Product:

REALbasic 2009 Release 2

Platforms:

All

Price:

$1495 (REAL Studio), $299 (Pro, was $500), $99 (Personal for OSX/Win, free for Linux)

Website:

http://www.realsoftware.com/download

Einhugur Reports 1.0a1

Einhugur Reports is a report generator for REALbasic. You define what data your application knows about. You or the users of your application can design reports using the report designer. Your application can decide if your end user can or cannot design or change report templates. The report generator has built in expression engine so that in a report Smokes true/false can, for example, be interpreted as smoker/non smoker. Most of the section primitives are open source, so if you want to display some data that the base sections dont support then you can easily create a new section primitive. The Report Generator needs REALbasic 2009r1 Pro, and various of Einhugur Plugins, and this is still early alpha software, a work in progress, but getting feedback from potential users in early stages is important.

Product:

Einhugur Reports 1.0a1

Platforms:

All

Price:

N/A

Website:

http://www.einhugur.com/EinhugurReports/

rbrw-core Report Writer 0.8

The free code-based rbrw report writer is a port of the OOFILE C++ Engine under the Mozilla license.

Product:

rbrw-core Report Writer 0.8

Platforms:

OSX / WIN

Price:

Open Source

Website:

http://code.google.com/p/rbrw-core/

Aquatic Prime Plugin

A Universal plugin for accessing the Aquatic Prime licensing system from REALbasic.

Product:

Aquatic Prime Plugin

Platforms:

OSX

Price:

N/A

Website:

http://www.scattersoft.com/downloads/AquaticPrimePlugin.zip

Formatted Text Control 1.5

The FTC is a canvas based control for REALbasic that implements word processor capabilities similar to Apple Pages or Microsoft Word. The FTC is useful for implementing reports and general word processing capabilities within your REALbasic applications. The FTC features the following capabilities: Four display modes including page, normal, edit, and single; RTF support including picture support; A full range of paragraph and character styles; Picture support; Custom object support for adding application specific items; Built in undo management; Many customization options to adapt the FTC to your application; Highly optimized code written in REALbasic for maximum flexibility The big new feature for version 1.5 is the addition of the FTRBScriptField that supports RBScript editing within your application including syntax coloring and automatic line indenting. This version also addresses 14 bug fixes. For a more complete list of features and capabilities, see the "FTC User Guide" and "Version History" documents in the demo download. Here is the list of new features in 1.5; Implemented FTRBScriptField. This is an editor for the REALbasic language that supports syntax coloring and line indention; Added a single line mode to the parser where it takes an entire paragraph and displays it as one line. This is useful for code editors; Implemented scrolling to the caret when you type in the horizontal direction so that the insertion caret will always be visible after you type; When selecting text with the mouse, it now tracks the horizontal mouse movement and scrolls the display accordingly; Refined the find insertion point functionality to consider on what part of the character the point resides and if it is more than halfway, it moves the insertion point after the character; Removed a restriction where a click off the page in the control wouldn't reset the insertion point to the right side of the affected line; Added support for single and double quote RTF commands; Reworked the naming of the edit view mode to setEditViewMode to make it more clear. Also overloaded it to allow passing in individual margin values so that you can have more control over the look and feel; Updated FTCStrings module to add the "&" symbol to the "undo" and "redo" strings so that they appear with underlines in the menu under Windows. Pricing for this software is now $350 for a set of non-encrypted modules. Currently we are offering a coupon on the website for 33% off the price. If you join the Association of REALbasic Professionals (www.arbp.org) at the professional level, you will receive a coupon for 50% off the price of the FTC!

Product:

Formatted Text Control 1.2

Platforms:

OSX / WIN

Price:

$350 (unencrypted modules)

Website:

http://www.truenorthsoftware.com/FormattedTextControl/FormattedTextControl.html

fp Plugin 1.3

Since version 1.1, these features have been added: fpFactorial(x) for BigFloat; depending on the value of x this is either x! or Gamma(x+1). fpFactorial(x) for BigInteger; x! is calculated using its definition; the result is always exact, unless there is overflow. There is a much faster conversion of a large BigInteger into a string.

Product:

fp Plugin 1.3

Platforms:

All

Price:

Free

Website:

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

REALbasic Developer Magazine in Book Format

REALbasic Developer Magazine is reprinting its first five years of issues into convenient perfect-bound books which will be shipping in May 2009. Each 300 page book contains the full contents of one year of the magazine (six issues) and features a full-color cover, black ink interior, and perfect-binding. These books contain older material and are thus priced at just $29.99, but current subscribers may order the books for 25% of the normal price. RBD Archive Volume 6 was published last year and is available for $49.99.

Product:

REALbasic Developer Magazine in Book Format

Platforms:

All

Price:

$50: Volume 6, $30: Volumes 1-5 (25% discount for current subscribers)

Website:

http://www.rbdeveloper.com/renew/

HelpLogic 1.6

Electric Butterfly, Inc. announces the immediate availability of HelpLogic 1.6, the award-winning help authoring solution for Mac OS X developers. Easily create help systems for your software and web sites from a single source! HelpLogic's innovative design removes the development headaches usually associated with help authoring, providing an ideal solution for Mac software developers, web site designers, and documentation writers. Save time with the integrated Workshop, Visual TOC Builder, HTML Editor, and Link Manager to quickly generate Web-based Help, Apple Help, Microsoft HTML Help, UniHelp, and PDF. This new 1.6 version includes several new enhancements, minor bug fixes, and an improved HTML Editor with lots of cool new features! This recommended update is a free upgrade for all existing HelpLogic customers. And if you're not yet a customer, download the free trial of HelpLogic and take it for a test drive!

Product:

HelpLogic 1.6

Platforms:

OSX

Price:

$99 (academic and multiple license volume discounts are also available)

Website:

http://www.ebutterfly.com/helplogic/

Ben's ListBox Extras 1.3

Bens ListBox Extras is a REALbasic ListBox subclass allows you to easily print the contents of the ListBox, includes better cell formatting and a quick way to add and store hierarchical data. REALbasic 2006r3 or higher is required. This update is free for existing users. Features: Easily print the contents of a ListBox including custom headers and footers on each page; Different font and font sizes for the cells and headers; Provides a quick, standard way to add and store hierarchical data (1 row deep); Allows suppressing mouse clicks in the ListBox Header; Gets the Header Height; Add pictures to any cell and any position in that cell; Custom cell background colors; iTunes like odd/even row coloring; adds in a workaround for REALbasic bug wvvxhunx to allow drawing the row background color past the last column (like iTunes); adds Popup Menu type for cells/columns. The CellAction event includes x, y location for the menu; adds RectControls to any cell (these can also be printed); can set the color of cell text; can set the font and font size per cell; Mac style listbox selection including options for Blue and Gray gradient highlight styles; Resize columns to largest cell text New Features:; Cell Pictures can now be placed anwhere in the cell with the addtion of the Top parameter; added displaying and printing of controls in cells (only BevelButton, Checkbox, PopupMenu and ProgressBar have been tested) Bugfixes: fixed potential recursive bug with getting BB_RowHeight; renamed HeaderHeight to BB_HeaderHeight for compatibility with 2009r1; printing right aligned text now has the correct horizontal location.

Product:

Ben's ListBox Extras 1.3

Platforms:

All

Price:

$30 (full source code)

Website:

http://www.benandruby.com/bens_software/RBstuff.html

BBCode Header

Jérémie Leroy and Devinci Engineering announce the release of BBCode Header. BBCode Header is a canvas subclass that displays multiple styles with a logo and a neat background. The background can have multiple colors, in which case a gradient of all colors is displayed. This control renders Photoshop-like headers for your software, in no more than 15 milliseconds. The text style is selected using BBCode, such as [b], [size=..] [color=#...]. Clickable URLs can also be displayed.

Product:

BBCode Header

Platforms:

All

Price:

20 Euro (80 Euro for full source)

Website:

http://pagesperso-orange.fr/JeremK/

SEEdit Maxi II 2009 r5

SEEdit Maxi II is an XHTML editor for Macintosh. With SEEdit's fast and powerful Editor Toolbox insertion of code and classes is always just one click away. SEEdit's handy advanced Tag Editor also handles CSS classes and Javascript functions. Other powerful features to assist professionals and hobbyists alike include: Tidy Checker for standards-compliant code; the Quick CSS Tool for rapid CSS development; extensive Multi-language support and Auto Complete. Users can download a fully functional Shareware version of SEEdit Maxi, with no limitations. New in this build: Improved Site Management; Added File Volume Search; Minor Fixes.

Product:

SEEdit Maxi II 2009 r5

Platforms:

OSX

Price:

Free

Website:

http://seeditmaxi.cachefly.net/

Qedit SourceList Control 1.5

This control provides REALbasic users with a list control as used by the OS X Finder, iTunes, OS X Mail, Coda & many other Cocoa Apps. Version 1.5 is double buffered, works cross platform and now supports versions 5.5.5 and up (including 2009) of the IDE. Once purchased, you are free to use our controls in as many of your own apps as you want, however the license does not grant you the right of re-distribution. If you create changes in the Full Source that you feel are worthwhile committing back to the main branch, please send them back to us for a reward!

Product:

Qedit SourceList Control 1.5

Platforms:

OSX

Price:

Free (Development License), $20 AUD (Deployment License), $50 AUD (Full Source License)

Website:

http://www.qedit.com.au/

RSReport 2008.2

With RSReport you can create static or dynamic reports in an object-oriented manner, show them in a print-preview, of course print them -- and even save them as .pdf. This is on both OSX and Windows (Linux should work, too -- but has never been tested and used) -- without the need of any Plugin or PDF-Converter/Printer. It's all written in pure REALbasic. The following basic drawing elements are available: Text, Line, Oval, Rectangle, Checkbox, Image, RTF-Text, Triangle. Charts:Line and Bar. Requires REALbasic Professional 2008r4 or newer.

Product:

RSReport 2008.2

Platforms:

All

Price:

$86 (free to try)

Website:

http://www.rothsoft.ch/realbasic/rsreport/

Apple Remote Class

Massimo Valle created a class to handle the Apple Infrared Remote in pure REALbasic without using plugins or weird hacks. Even if other solutions are already available he thought to share his work because it's not plugin-dependant and also show how to use some techniques to handle COM objects with REALbasic delegates. Donations via PayPal are accepted and highly appreciated.

Product:

Apple Remote Class

Platforms:

OSX

Price:

Free (open source)

Website:

http://www.maxvalle.com/AppleRemoteClass.zip

RBScript User Guide Project

True North Software in conjunction with the Association of REALbasic Professionals has teamed up to create a user guide for RBScript. Imagine that you have written an application that uses RBScript to allow end users to expand the functionality of your application, so what do you give to your users to explain how to program in RBScript? The purpose of this project is to develop a base user guide that fully explains how to program in RBScript. With this manual all you have to do is provide an application-specific reference for the methods and properties in your context object. This project is a work in progress and currently has 125 pages of material. If you wish to contribute to this project, there are opportunities for you to add the missing sections and help edit the content. To download the project go to the "Articles" section at www.arbp.org and read the "READ ME" file in the download for instructions.

Product:

RBScript User Guide Project

Platforms:

All

Price:

Free for ARBP members

Website:

http://www.arbp.org

Custom EditField 1.6

Alex Restrepo's Custom EditField, a powerful replacement text editor class for REALbasic, has been updated to 1.6. Among the new features are: Bookmarks; the ability to highlight characters without a selection; custom background colors for specific lines; reindent text; the ability to do custom drawing below or above a text line. The download archive also includes a great sample project by Thomas Tempelmann, using his diff code.

Product:

Custom EditField 1.6

Platforms:

All

Price:

$100 (source code)

Website:

http://homepage.mac.com/alexrestrepo

SQLite Migrator

LogicalVue Software, Inc. announced the availability of SQLite Migrator, the quick and easy way to migrate your databases to SQLite. SQLite a free, open-source, single-user database engine that is taking the world by storm. It is used by a wide variety of applications and development tools, including Apple OS X (CoreData), REALbasic, Adobe Flex/Air, Google Gears, REAL Server, Bento, and more. With SQLite Migrator you can migrate to SQLite any database that you can connect to using ODBC. It is a great way to migrate Access and FoxPro databases to SQLite, but it works with just about any database including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and much more. A demo version is available from the LogicalVue website.

Product:

SQLite Migrator

Platforms:

All

Price:

$49.95

Website:

http://www.logicalvue.com/sqlite/sqlite.html

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