REALbasic Stuff

REALbasic is a very good tool for cross-platform programming. It does have some limitations that with a little work can be overcome. BKeeney Software has been using RB for close to seven years and have done Visual Basic programming for seven or eight years and we've done some rather large projects with both.

So what are we going to do? Well, some topics need to be covered in greater detail than what you can find on the REALbasic Network Users Group Archives or on the REALbasic Forums. We'll attempt to better inform the RB community of the options you have.

Disclaimer: BKeeney Software Inc. makes no claim to how well any particular solution works and is up to the individual to do additional research before using any software or technique in any product.

If you find anything you'd like to add to these pages, please drop us a line.


Printing
So you've got that great database or graphics application. Looks great on the screen and now you have to get it to print. In the Windows world, regardless of the programming language, you would probably use Crystal Reports or Data Reports. Both are fairly easy to use and there's lot's of help out there for them. And you can use them in REALbasic for Windows (not that I've tried) but that leaves you out in the cold if you are a Macintosh or Linux REALbasic programmer and it certainly doesn't work with cross platform solutions.

Click here for our ongoing investigation into REALbasic printing solutions.

SmartSQL For REALbasic
Sometimes dealing with databases in REALbasic is a pain. Sometimes you have to use a DatabaseRecord object and other times you have to use a Recordset object and sometimes you have to use SQL statements. SmartSQL is class designed to easily create select, insert, update and delete SQL statements. Find out more. This is a port of the popular SmartSQL class found on FreeVBCode.net.