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Issue 9.4

NEWS

News

Issue: 9.4 (May/June 2011)
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http://boscos.me/Reader
http://web.mac.com/vanhoek
http://homepage.mac.com/delaneyrm/DecimalPlugin.html
http://homepage.mac.com/delaneyrm/SolveDiffEq.html
http://www.truenorthsoftware.com/rtfparser
http://www.realsoftware.com/download
http://www.QuickStartSoftware.com/
http://StudioStable.com/Haystack
http://www.tempel.org/Arbed
http://www.tinrocket.com/superspritesurface
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http://www.truenorthsoftware.com/formattedtextcontrol
http://www.aquiladigital.us/darkadapted/
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DynaPDF 3.0

MonkeyBread Software is pleased to announce that the new DynaPDF 3.0 plugin is now available. Want to show a PDF to the user? With a Pro license you can now display PDF pages. We added a rasterizer class to create pictures for a PDF page with a given matrix. This way you can build your own PDF viewer. This is also very useful for doing PDF based reporting or print preview. The new version offers a new, very robust and fully PDF 1.7, Extension Level 5 compatible PDF parser that is also able to repair damaged PDF files. In the today's world, with the huge amount of available PDF libraries, it is more and more important to be able to read damaged PDF files. Therefore, DynaPDF 3.0 contains now very powerful repair capabilities which are applied in background. Minor issues and repairs will be reported to the new error log. The new PDF parser does not allocate large memory blocks and only compressed objects are hold in memory. In addition, it reads only required parts of a file to enable high performance access to single pages of very large PDF files. The access time to single pages does practically no longer depend on the file size. For example, the required processing time to extract one page from a PDF file that contains about 200.000 pages is now just a few milliseconds. DynaPDF 2.5 required about two minutes on a fast system, as long as the file did not already produce an out of memory exception! Beside the new PDF parser DynaPDF 3.0 contains many improvements in detail such as support for images with an alpha channel, layer handling when parsing PDF files, better form handling, and much more. With exception of two functions DynaPDF 3.0 is fully backward compatible. Your existing applications should work without changes in the source codes.

Product:

DynaPDF 3.0

Platforms:

All

Price:

$219-$1949 (depending on version)

Website:

http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/realbasic/plugin-dynapdf.shtmlStudio Stable Database 2.1

Studio Stable Database (SSD) for Real Studio fulfills the promise of creating database applications that scale from a single user to a small group to a large number of users. SSD is the right starting point for your database application. The client library and database server is offered for free, with zero royalties for deployment. The client library can access local SQLite files and connect to SSD Servers. Full Real Studio source code is included for the client library, so if you ever run into problems, you have some hope of tracking them down. There is also the SSD Server Club and SSD Server Club with Source. Both include three "pro" servers, with royalty-free distribution rights. The latter also includes source code for the servers. A 1-year subscription to SSD Server Club is now US$200. A 1-year subscription to SSD Server Club with Source is now US$500. New in version 2.1: * Explicit client library support for in-memory databases, including our Files API. * Client library now supports the "multiuser" (Write-Ahead Logging or "WAL") property of underlying REALSQLDatabase in real.studio 2011r1 and later. * Server Club servers support Write-Ahead Logging. Free SSD Server does not. * Command-line server (Server Club only) now supports multiple named databases. * Servers built with real.studio 2011r1.1.

Product:

Studio Stable Database 2.1

Platforms:

All

Price:

Free (database); $200/year (Server Club)

Website:

http://StudioStable.com/Database

SQLVue 4.0

LogicalVue Software, Inc. announced today the availability of SQLVue 4.0, the elegant IDE for SQLite developers. 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 Mac OS X (CoreData), iOS, Real Studio, Adobe Flex/Air, Google Gears, Bento and more. With SQLVue you can manage your SQLite databases quickly and easily. Features include: * Full code completion (for SQLite syntax and your table and column names). * Full display of database Pragma values. * Table editor that displays all table information one place. * Simple, clean design. SQLVue works on Mac OS X and is available through the Mac App Store.

Product:

SQLVue 4.0

Platforms:

OSX

Price:

$19.99

Website:

http://www.logicalvue.com/products/sqlvue

Bosco's Reader 1.0

Bosco's Reader is witter client for Mac and Windows that makes Twitter accessible for people who have been hesitant to get on the Twitter. And it's pretty useful if you'd like a document-centric way to organize the people on Twitter who interest you. Bosco's Reader uses a few of the classes included in Studio Stable Haystack. Check out the picture glide control at the top of the window and see how the Twitter classes work, including signing in with OAuth. Bosco's Reader is free to download and use. If you're interested in advertising, we have a mechanism at the bottom of the window that presents ads, tips, sample documents to download, etc.

Product:

Bosco's Reader 1.0

Platforms:

OSX / WIN

Price:

Free

Website:

http://boscos.me/Reader

Lexing Plugin

A new version of the Lexing plugin is available for downloading. It supports the MacOSX 10.5+ and Windows XP+ platforms. This plugin is an editor, specifically designed for coloring large amounts of text. Coloring is based on the syntax of the programming or scripting language being used and with the help of a compiler, you can annotate compiler errors. Tab width, indentation, wrapping, markers, and margins can be set at your will. Lexing plugin sits on a well-known engine, and with REALstudio, you can create applications that have the look and feel of Xcode or Visual Studio, or REALbasic's RBScript IDE editor. In addition, a single document (aka a script) can be viewed and manipulated in multiple views/windows. Parts of the text can be displayed on a different colored background, or different font, in italic, underlined or bold, you can squiggle, or display line ends. The Undo/Redo manager does not record style changes, only editing changes. Undo/Redo/Cut/Copy/Paste are auto matically invokated, but can be adjusted.

Product:

Lexing Plugin

Platforms:

OSX / WIN

Price:

$100 (Pro), $50 (Academic)

Website:

http://web.mac.com/vanhoek

Decimal Plugin 2.2

Decimal Plugin adds a new number type, Decimal, to REALbasic. Decimal can handle big numbers whose size is only limited by available memory. Decimals can be freely mixed with REALbasic's numeric types. The Decimal type can exactly represent any finite decimal. One can think of a Decimal as two numbers (i, e), where i is an integer of any length, and e is of Integer type and is the exponent for base ten. (That is (i, e) = i x 10^e.) Decimal Plugin implements the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in base ten. So if one does arithmetic operations, except for division, the results will be exact, regardless of the number of digits in the result. But for some Decimals division can give a result with an infinite number of decimal places which cannot be represented exactly by a Decimal. So one must limit the length of the integer i by specifying a decimal precision, an upper limit for the number of digits in the integer resulting from division.

Product:

Decimal Plugin 2.2

Platforms:

All

Price:

Free

Website:

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

SolveDiffEq 3.2

SolveDiffEq is a standalone application which allows you to numerically solve differential equations and evaluate definite integrals of your choosing. Using the Runge-Kutta method, SolveDiffEq can solve any number of differential equations of the form dx(0)/dt = f(0)(t, x(0), x(1), . . . ), dx(1)/dt = f(1)(t, x(0), x(1), . . . ), etc. The Help menu shows how to input a script defining the functions f(0), f(1), . . . so as to numerically solve differential equations of any order or to numerically evaluate any one variable definite integral. Your script is translated by RBScript into machine language for fast calculation.

Product:

SolveDiffEq 3.2

Platforms:

All

Price:

Free

Website:

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

RTFParser 1.0

True North Software has announced the release of version 1.0 of the RTFParser. Within the Formatted Text Control (FTC) is an RTF parser that both reads and writes RTF and you can now add the same RTF processing power to your TextArea Controls! There are two parts to this software including the core RTF parser and the glue code that hooks up the core parser to the TextArea control. With this code you will have the ability to get and set RTF and additionally it handles cut, copy and paste for the TextArea.

Product:

RTFParser version 1.0

Platforms:

All

Price:

$49 (non-encrypted modules)

Website:

http://www.truenorthsoftware.com/rtfparser

Real Studio 2011 Release 1

Real Software, creator of object-oriented, cross-platform software development tools for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux and the web, announced the first 2011 release of its flagship product, Real Studio. The new 2011 Release 1 -- affecting both the Web and Desktop Editions -- contains 114 improvements and 35 new features, including greatly simplified web application deployment capabilities as well as new Microsoft SQL Server support for improved performance and easier deployment. Real Studio was released 13 years ago to help software developers create a wide range of applications, from utilities to enterprise-class programs. With 2011 Release 1, Real Software is helping developers to deploy web applications much faster and easier with a new CGI option that automatically outputs a Perl script and acts as a gateway between the web server and the application. The new product also includes a new, native Microsoft SQL Server plugin, providing easier deployment and better performance. * Easier deployment of web applications -- The new CGI option outputs a Perl script that acts as a gateway between the web server and the web application. The Perl script goes in the cgi-bin folder allowing for easier hosting and supporting many more hosting services. * New Microsoft SQL Server support -- A new, native Microsoft SQL Server plugin has been added for easier deployment and improved performance. This plugin supports Windows only. * Improved web application exception handling -- The session class now has an unhandled exception event to make it easier to trap exceptions that weren't handled in code. * Improved web application JavaScript error handling -- When an error occurs in the client-side JavaScript, a dialog is now presented that gives the user an option to send the error message to the web application. This information is received by an event the developer can implement to log this information. * Improved web application file uploading -- It is now possible to limit the number of files the user can upload and new events have been added allowing users to determine when a file has been added or removed. * Improved HTMLViewer -- The HTMLViewer now supports getting and setting custom user agent strings and increasing/decreasing the font size. * Multiuser support for RealSQLDatabase -- RealSQLDatabase now has a new Multiuser property. This enables web applications to allow multiple users to access a RealSQLDatabase file at the same time. This may eliminate the need, for some web applications, to require a database server. * Improved WebListBox -- The WebListBox now has a CellClick event (just like the desktop Listbox has), as well as Cell and Column Style properties, allowing far greater control over the look and behavior of cells. * Improved drag and drop -- The new DragPicture property allows for the use of an image for dragging. UTIs (Universal Type Identifiers) are now supported by drag and drop on Mac OS X as well. * Improved Mac OS X clipboard support -- UTIs (Uniform Type Identifiers) are now supported by the Clipboard class on Mac OS X for easier identification of clipboard data. * Improved database support -- Running SQL commands in a thread is now optional via a property. Turning this off improves performance but is not advisable in a web application. * Improved Cocoa support -- This release includes a huge number of improvements to Real Studio's Cocoa framework, improving compatibility for more projects.

Product:

Real Studio 2011 Release 1

Platforms:

All

Price:

$995 (REAL Studio), $599 (Web), $299 (Pro), $99 (Personal for OSX/Win, free for Linux)

Website:

http://www.realsoftware.com/download

PayPal Payments Available

Quick Start Software (QuickStartSoftware.com) is pleased to announce PayPal Payments, a new set of classes for Real Studio that allows you to quickly add PayPal payments to your Desktop or Web application for single items or shopping carts. Highlights: * Free trial classes are available for download on our website. * Example projects are included for Desktop and Web. * Example web applications and documentation available on our website. * Works with the PayPal Sandbox. * Our website was created using Real Studio Web and Quick Start PayPal Payments. * More classes are coming soon.

Product:

PayPal Payments

Platforms:

All

Price:

$150

Website:

http://www.QuickStartSoftware.com/

Studio Stable Haystack

Studio Stable Haystack is a collection of useful stuff for REAL Studio. It currently includes: 1. Component X Graphics plugin—Many fast graphics routines. Currently supports Windows/Mac, GUI/console, Carbon/Cocoa. Source code is not provided. 2. Gradient_SS class—create linear, radial, and elliptical gradients easily. Includes full source. 3. IconCanvas_SS canvas—highly customizable and responsive icon view. Includes full source. 4. PictureGlide_SS canvas—inspired by Cover Flow, but not exactly like it. Includes full source. 5. ScrollingCredits_SS canvas—the perfect scrolling credits for your application's about box. Includes full source. 6. Twitter API—Implements OAuth and Twitter REST APIs. Beta note: this has an exhaustive sample project, but no documentation right now. It will require some knowledge of the Twitter API. Includes full source. Some of these items are currently available individually. They will soon be available only as part of the Haystack.

Product:

Studio Stable Haystack

Platforms:

All

Price:

$100/year

Website:

http://StudioStable.com/Haystack

Arbed Released

Thomas Tempelmann is proud to announce the release of Arbed. Arbed (pronounced R-bed) is a tool with advanced editing features for REAL Studio projects. Its major features include: - Conversion of projects for localization by interactively turning the strings in your source code into dynamic constants. - Side-by-side comparison of different versions of your projects, with the option to merge the differences from one to the other project. - Output the entire project source as a html file, with syntax coloring. Minor (and free) features include: - Search for text in multiple projects by simply choosing a set of folders to search. - Consolitation of external project items for easier redistribution. You can download Arbed and even use many of its features for free. Its major features, however, are not free.

Product:

Arbed

Platforms:

OSX / WIN

Price:

$200 ($150 until March 21, 2011)

Website:

http://www.tempel.org/Arbed

SuperSpriteSurface 2.0

SuperSpriteSurface is a class framework for REALbasic that provides a savvy, modern alternative to REALbasic's built in SpriteSurface control. SuperSpriteSurface improves upon REALbasic's built in SpriteSurface control (or ad hoc 2D solutions created with REALbasic's Rb3D system) in several areas. SuperSpriteSurface now costs nothing to use; the source code is provided unlocked but is provided "as is."

Product:

SuperSpriteSurface 2.0

Platforms:

All

Price:

Free

Website:

http://www.tinrocket.com/superspritesurface

Web File Editor

Web File Editor is a new product from Hutchings Software. It works with their "wfed" protocol to allow your website to offer files that can be downloaded, edited, and uploaded easily by any member, even the non-geeks. This is useful for Content Management Systems (CMSs) such as Learning Management Systems (LMSs) and Electronic Medical Records (EMR) systems. This product came out of a feature they helped a customer implement in an EMR system. The customer does medical transcriptions, and needed a way for doctors to make corrections and additions to transcribed reports, then associate the changes with the right patient and visit. The workflow is with Word documents, and previously had rather complicated upload procedures for the doctors. The doctors love it, because they can use software they are familiar with (Word) and the changes are reflected quickly after they finish editing. While Hutchings Software doesn't yet have tight integration with Web Edition yet, they know it can be easily done with a SQLite database (Studio Stable Database is an option) and a CGI app to handle the wfed protocol. So this may be of high interest to the Web Edition community. In the future integration can be tighter.

Product:

Web File Editor

Platforms:

OSX / WIN

Price:

$100 per server IP address (free for end-users)

Website:

http://wfed.me

Newton's Method 3.0

Newton's Method 3.0 allows the user to choose any desired precision for the calculation. Newton's Method is an application which, using the Newton-Raphson Method, enables you to find the real solutions of f(x) = 0 for a real function f(x). It also acts as a function evaluator to the chosen accuracy. You can enter a wide variety of functions for f(x). REALbasic's RBScript translates the function into machine language so the numerical calculation proceeds as rapidly as if the function had been compiled into the application from the source code. Newton's Method 3.0 uses the BigFloat class of the fp Plugin to allow RBScript to compile a user's script like f = cos(x) - a*x and either evaluate f as f(x), for any input value of x, or to find a root of f(x) given an initial guess for x. Only available RAM limits the desired precision. So the user has much of the power of REALbasic available in constructing an f(x) script. A wide variety of BigFloat functions are available such as trig functions, hyperbolic functions, Gamma function, Bessel Functions, Beta Function, Incomplete Beta Function, Error Functions, Exponential Integral, Fresnel Integrals, Kummer's Function (a Confluent Hypergeometric Function). The author doubts that you can find any programmable scientific calculator which is more powerful than Newton's Method 3.0.

Product:

Newton's Method 3.0

Platforms:

All

Price:

Free

Website:

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

Formatted Text Control v2.2

True North Software has announced the release of version 2.2 of the Formatted Text Control (FTC). The FTC is a canvas based control for REAL Studio 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 REAL Studio 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 and chart 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 REAL Studio for maximum flexibility The following features were added to version 2.2. - Removed the requirement for graphic conversion plugins from MBS or Einhugur. The FTC now uses recently added RS framework methods to accomplish task and therefore the minimum RS IDE is 2010R3. - Added support for the RTF tags bullet, emdash, endash, emspace, enspace, qmspace. - Added a method to FTPage called getPageLineCount that will tell you how many lines are on the page. - Added two design time properties called VScrollbarAutoHide and HScrollbarAutoHide. These properties will cause the scrollbar to hide when the length of the content can be fully displayed without scrolling.

Product:

Formatted Text Control version 2.2

Platforms:

All

Price:

$150

Website:

http://www.truenorthsoftware.com/formattedtextcontrol

DarkAdapted 3.0

DarkAdapted is an app that controls the amount of red, green, and blue in your screen(s) so that you may, for example, preserve your dark adaptation while using your computer. Gamma fades can be scheduled, AppleScripts may be scheduled, and system-wide hotkeys can be set up to execute AppleScripts and gamma fades. Define an unlimited number of gamma presets. New in 3.0 is scroll wheel brightness control, heads-up displays when a screen's color changes, control window fading, simultaneous fades on multiple displays, and a lot more. DarkAdapted once received Honorable Mention in the Made with RB Awards, and is of course made with REAL Studio. Dan Frakes at Mac Gems gave DarkAdapted 2.3.7 a rating of 4.5 mice.

Product:

DarkAdapted 3.0

Platforms:

OSX / WIN

Price:

$5.95 (Standard), $29.95 (Pro)

Website:

http://www.aquiladigital.us/darkadapted/

ActionScripting and Syntax Coloring

Alfred Van Hoek is proud to announce two novel plugins for REAL Studio. With the Script plugin RBScript can access any object, method across the sandbox. RBScript is called sandboxed, because it has no knowledge of the REALstudio runtime. However, communication is possible using simple data types string, integer, boolean, double, and ActionScript provides 3 key methods to be used in RBScript. Action scripting with RBScript is possible. The plugin defines a ActionScript control that encapsulates RBScript. ActionScript is fully compatible with RBScript. Your script can create widgets and install an event handler on the widget, and the event handler will report back to the script. The script stays alive, is responsive, allowing event-driven updates that can be handled in various ways along your choosing. For example, you would have a text field on a window, and you would want the script to add scrollbars along two sides of the text field. You do so by scripting the creation of the scrollbars on the window and you would request a valueChanged handler on each of the 2 scrollbars. When a user would move the thumb of the scrollbar, the script will be messaged in its while nextEvent loop, where you obtain the scrollbar.value. The script then can issue the command to move the text field, et voila, it will. The script plugin runs currently for MacOS X (cocoa, carbon) and Windows. There is a neat example project that comes with the plugin. Note that the example project requires the LexingControl plugin, which currently is only for MacOS X. LexingControl Plugin is a cocoa syntax highlighter of programming files for a variety of languages, such as C, D, Fortran, Basic, MySql, Lua, php, Perl, etc. It runs also as a carbon plugin. This plugin is particular useful for REALbasic/REALstudio developers who want to provide an editor for scripting of applications build with REALstudio. The plugin provides also tools to annotate scripting files when compilation leads to errors. Various example projects show this functionality exploiting the availability of the RBScript compiler as well as third-party script-specific compilers.

Product:

ActionScripting, LexingControl

Platforms:

OSX / WIN (scripting), OSX (LexingControl)

Price:

Free

Website:

http://web.me.com/vanhoek/Site

fp Plugin 4.0

fp Plugin 4.0 has functions which use Laguerre's Method to find all the roots of a polynomial to any chosen precision. Its description file contains the code for my freeware PolyRootsRB, a root finder application (its download page is http://homepage.mac.com/delaneyrm/PolyRootsRB.html). Using a custom multi-precision engine fp, fp Plugin for REALbasic adds three new data types. They are: BigInteger, BigFloat, 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. The added 4th data type is ComplexVector, which holds an array of BigComplex numbers. Additional functions use the Laguerre method to find for a polynomial all its roots (complex or real) to any chosen precision.

Product:

fp Plugin 4.0

Platforms:

All

Price:

Free (no warranty)

Website:

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

Lua Script plugin

The Lua Script plugin is a Lua script interpreter that you can plug into your application to use to give your users ability to script your applications. - REAL Studio built application can run the Lua script as whole or call separate functions within the Lua script. - Lua scripts can call REAL Studio functions that you register to be visible to Lua scripts. - REAL Studio built application can read and write global variables from a Lua script. - It's easy to make functions to allow Lua script to manipulate your REALbasic objects. Lua is a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. On Linux and Mac OS X it takes little over 200 kb when compiled into your application. On Windows it takes little over 300 kb. (Little over 400 kb if compiling Universal binary on MacOS X that has both PPC and Intel code). Lua is proven and robust language. Lua has been used in many industrial applications (e.g., Adobe's Photoshop Lightroom), with an emphasis on embedded systems (e.g., the Ginga middleware for digital TV in Brazil) and games (e.g., World of Warcraft). Lua is currently the leading scripting language in games. Lua has a solid reference manual and there are several books about it. Several versions of Lua have been released and used in real applications since its creation in 1993. Lua featured in HOPL III, the Third ACM SIGPLAN History of Programming Languages Conference, in June 2007. Lua is fast. Lua has a deserved reputation for performance. To claim to be "as fast as Lua" is an aspiration of other scripting languages. Several benchmarks show Lua as the fastest language in the realm of interpreted scripting languages. Lua is fast not only in fine-tuned benchmark programs, but in real life too. A substantial fraction of large applications have been written in Lua. The Lua script engine Lua is designed, implemented, and maintained by a team at PUC-Rio, the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Lua was born and raised in Tecgraf, the Computer Graphics Technology Group of PUC-Rio, and is now housed at Lablua. Both Tecgraf and Lablua are laboratories of the Department of Computer Science of PUC-Rio.

Product:

Lua Script plugin 1.0 for REALbasic

Platforms:

All

Price:

$199 (for all Einhugur plugins)

Website:

http://www.einhugur.com/

SQLiteConverter

QLabs announced SQLiteConverter, the fastest and easier way to convert your mySQL, PostgreSQL and Oracle database to sqlite. It combines a very intuitive interface with very powerful features so you can convert an existing remotely hosted database to sqlite in few time. Thanks to a very intuitive wizard you'll be guide step by step to 5 easy operations in order to completely convert your remote databases. The entire process obviously depends on how much data you need to convert but most of the time you'll be able to complete it in few seconds. SQLiteConverter is the ideal tool not only to complete a conversion between different DBMS to sqlite but it is also the ideal solution to backup your remote data to another disk based relational sql database. You always have full control over the conversion process, you can decide to convert the entire database or just select the individual tables you want to backup. New databases data sources will be added in the future as a free upgrade!

Product:

SQLiteConverter

Platforms:

OSX / WIN

Price:

$49

Website:

http://www.sqlabs.com/sqliteconverter.php

REAL Studio Training for 2011

After last fall's successful training in Koblenz, MonkeyBread Software and Application Systems Heidelberg, the REAL Studio distributor in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria, will offer training sessions in Europe for REAL Studio throughout 2011. Hannover, 5th to 7th May 2011, Vienna, 22th to 24th September 2011, Zürich, 29th September to 1st Oktober 2011, Aachen, 10th to 12th November 2011, Frankfurt am Main, 24th to 26th November 2011. Each training is from Thursday to Saturday. First day for beginners, second day for advanced and third day for databases. Trainings are in German. On May 21-22 training will be in Essen, Germany. Sessions are to be held in either German or English. Translation help will be provided. REAL Studio Conference 2011 is also conceived as a networking event. The conference is an ideal opportunity for sharing your thoughts and your own development experience with fellow users and developers. Registration and more detailed information will be available soon on the website.

Product:

REAL Studio Trainings

Platforms:

All

Price:

199 Euro (179 Euro early bird, student discounts also available)

Websites:

http://www.realsoftware.de/events/realcon2011essen/

Fast CGI Host Web Hosting for RS Web Edition Apps

Looking for a web hosting solution for your RealStudio WE application? Fast CGI Host announces a hosting solution specifically for you! Just $19.95/month with Free new account setup, Free domain name support, Debian Linux server, 24/7/365 Tech and Account Support, Unlimited Bandwidth, FTP and SSH shell account access, 100% Uptime SLA, all at a fully staffed and monitored datacenter. There's no limit on the number of apps you can host. As long as you are within your disk space quota, you're welcome to host as many WE apps as you need. Also, your first month is free and you receive a 10% discount if you purchase 12-months today. You can have as many domain names and mysql databases as you need. Taking applications for new accounts beginning Monday, December 20. Please call today to discuss your hosting needs and account setup: 888-382-8131.

Product:

Fast CGI Host Web Hosting for RS Web Edition Apps

Platforms:

All

Price:

$19.95/month

Website:

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REAL Studio Web Edition

REAL Software, creator of object-oriented, cross-platform software development tools for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux, has announced the general availability of REAL Studio Web Edition, the first web application development tool designed for both ordinary people and traditional software programmers. REAL Studio Web Edition allows users to easily create rich, web 3.0 applications up to 50 times faster than traditional web development tools by using a single programming language rather than several web technologies. Because of its unique interface, almost any app built for the desktop can now be created for the web with ease without the need to learn five different web technologies. REAL Studio Web Edition uses a single, high-level, object-oriented language that is tightly integrated with the REAL Studio web framework. This allows developers to focus on what makes their application unique. Web Edition's visual interface builder allows the user to create an interface via "drag and drop" rather than hand-coding it in HTML. Behind-the-scenes, the web framework translates the user interface on the fly into the appropriate web technologies required by the browser, thus eliminating the need for the user to know the above mentioned web languages and technologies. REAL Studio applications are uniquely compiled to machine code for fast execution, allowing developers to sell their software with the knowledge that their intellectual property is safe and secure. REAL Studio is the only suite of web application development tools that compiles applications to binary code, making them extremely difficult to hack. The integrated debugger makes tracking down bugs far easier than traditional web development tools. Additionally, the interface controls are supported on all browsers, eliminating testing on each browser which is required with other techniques. REAL Studio Web Edition is available today for $599. It is included in REAL Studio Enterprise Edition, which also allows developers to create high quality applications for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. REAL Studio Enterprise Edition is priced at $995. REAL Studio is available in a 30-day trial and also includes a 90-day money back guarantee.

Product:

REAL Studio Web Edition

Platforms:

All

Price:

$599 ($995 as part of Enterprise Edition)

Website:

http://realsoftware.com/download

New Styled Text to HTML Solution

REALbasic developers have a new solution available for converting styled text in Real Studio and REALbasic TextArea and EditField controls into HTML output for display in Web browsers and for use in HTML email messages. The new PWStyleHTMLField is now available. PWStyleHTMLField offers a number of advanced features, including: * Extensive support for links * One function call generates an HTML email message * Helper code for cleaning tags from plain-text email message content * Features such as images, lists, tables and formatting requiring CSS styles can be incorporated in HTML. "PandaWare's new PWStyleHTMLField class makes it super easy to generate rich HTML formatted emails from within our REAL Studio apps. We especially love how easy it is to manage HTML links within a text field," said an enthusiastic Keith DeLong of Redcort Software. "I think every serious developer will want to own these powerful, time saving classes." Developers can download a free compiled demo application that demonstrates the capabilities of PWStyleHTMLField. While there, developers can also request a time-limited demo project for testing in their own Real Studio or REALbasic projects.

Product:

PWStyleHTMLField

Platforms:

OSX / WIN

Price:

$25

Website:

http://pandaware.com/RB/pwhtmlfield.html

RSReport Designer

Roth Soft releases RSReport Designer 2010.2.2. LehrerOffice is a product of Roth Soft. It is an Office-Software designed for teachers. The cross-platform version, 'LehrerOffice Easy' is written in REALbasic. In order to create, design, and print all the required reports, Roth Soft has written a whole set of Report-Classes (RSReport) in pure REALbasic. 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 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: Elements: Text, Line, Oval, Rectangle, Checkbox, Image, RTF-Text, Triangle Charts: Line and Bar With RSReport Designer, you can visually design the reports instead of creating reports only by code. Designed and coded reports can be combined, allowing very complex reports to be created. The Designer can be used and included in your software as: a Window, a standalone app - or embedded as a ContainerControl.

Product:

RSReport Designer 2010.2.2

Platforms:

All

Price:

$86

Website:

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

PersistentTimer Class

Timers are useful for many things is REAL Studio besides the obvious. Often timers can be easiest way to work around limitations or bugs, so they are used often. To that end it is often convenient to instantiate them in code. That is equally true using self contained timer subclasses, subclasses that use delegates for the time timer action or the new AddHandler feature of REALStudio 2010r4. Often times once you start a timer you don't need to do anything else with it, however because of how REALStudio manages memory you if you don't keep a reference to it will never fire because REALStudio will destroy it, thinking the timer is no longer need. When you drag a timer onto a Window, you don't need to worry about that as the Window will keep a reference to it. However when you instantiate it in code, you are responsible for keeping a reference to it and you are responsible for setting the reference to nil if needed when you are dome with it. Often this is just bookkeeping that serves useful no purpose in the logic of what you are trying to accomplish and adds needlessly to a long list of properties making code maintenance more of a chore. The PersistentTimer solves this problem.

Product:

PersistentTimer Class

Platforms:

All

Price:

Free

Website:

http://mysite.verizon.net/vzezdg8x/id4.html

AquaticPrime in RB

Massimo Valle has created an AquaticPrime (http://www.aquaticmac.com/) implementation written entirely in REALbasic and submitted it to Benjamin Rister which mantain a repository on gitHub for various AquaticPrime implementations. Also, Benjamin is seeking for RB developers to review the code, before merging it into the trunk. Anyone interested can contact Benjamin via email. See Benjamin's github profile for contact email.

Product:

AquaticPrime in RB

Platforms:

All

Price:

Free

Website:

http://github.com/bdrister/AquaticPrime/commit/17eb699b611d5f4d3b721a3fcecfcb6b91ef9dd0

Spell Check Utilities 2.5

True North Software has announced the release of version 2.5 of the Spell Check Utilities (SCU). The SCU builds off the Wintertree Sentry Spell Checker Engine (SSCE) by providing the glue code, in the form of a plugin, to access the SSCE routines in REALbasic. The problem with many spell checking solutions in the REALbasic market place is that they use platform specific built-in services to provide spell checking. This is fine if you want to build for only one platform or the other, but becomes a hindrance when you want to create a cross platform application that behaves exactly the same for every platform. The SSCE is a fast, professional, cross-platform spell checking engine and has many features and benefits. New for for version 2.5... - Added Cocoa support to the plugin. (Note with Cocoa still in beta, there are many bugs that cause problems and crashes not related to the SSCE plugin.) - Fixed some issues with Icelandic encoding. - Added some refinements to the demo application including a warning that incoming word lists need to be encoded in UTF8 and added the ability to reload the main dictionary so that you can test any custom dictionaries. - Added the convenience methods deleteAllDictionaries, deleteDictionary, and deleteMainDictionaries. For a more complete list of features and capabilities, see the SCU User Guide in the download.

Product:

Spell Check Utilities version 2.5

Platforms:

All

Price:

$500

Website:

http://www.truenorthsoftware.com/spellcheckutilities

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