Realbasic for Dummies

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Edition: CD
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-03-01
Publisher(s): John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Summary

A guide for getting your feet wet in beginning REALbasic while creating useful and impressive applications. Also a professional reference that will give you the functionality you need in a hurry. With drag-and-drop ease, REALbasic puts the power of programming within everyone2s reach. Yet, the long list of features will impress the most discriminating professionals. REALbasic For Dummies briefly introduces you to the REALbasic environment and quickly moves to the creation of an application and its interface. Next, an examination of the various features available in REALbasic is accompanied by appropriate code examples. Finally, your REALbasic knowledge is put to good use building three example applications. All code examples presented in the text are available on the CD along with a trial version of REALbasic.

Table of Contents

Foreword xxi
Introduction 1(6)
Part I: Important REAL Estate: The Lay of the Land 7(36)
A Brief Tour of the REALbasic Environment
9(16)
Creating Your First Project
25(18)
Part II: Understanding the REALbasic Language 43(82)
A Window into the Soul
45(14)
Building and Interface
59(20)
OOP!
79(12)
Variables and Their Operators
91(24)
Bossing Your Program Around
115(10)
Part III: REAL Goodies: Making Your Program Do Something Cool 125(108)
When Do We Get to the Pretty Pictures?
127(24)
QuickTime
151(16)
Sound Off!
167(10)
Animation Fun
177(16)
Working with Files
193(14)
Printing with REALbasic
207(12)
Creating Internet Applications
219(14)
Part IV: Getting REAL Fancy with Advanced Topics 233(60)
AppleScript in REALbasic
235(12)
Databases
247(22)
Extending REALbasic with Plugins
269(10)
Special Mac OS X and Windows Considerations
279(14)
Part V: The Part of Tens 293(18)
Ten Tips for REAL Pros
295(6)
Ten REAL Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them
301(10)
Appendix: About the CD 311(6)
Index 317(17)
Hungry Minds End-User License Agreement 334(2)
Installation Instructions 336

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