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REALbasic Cross-Platform Application Development treats REALbasic as a serious development environment and is targeted to developers with a minimum of programming experience, but who may or may not be new to the REALbasic platform. Written by a writer and developer with extensive REALbasic experience with input and guidance from REAL Software, this book will show you how to take advantage of the new cross-platform abilities of REALbasic and teach you how to create cross-platform applications. Don't waste any more time with the other novice-oriented REALbasic books out there. Get inside this development environment with REALbasic Cross-Platform Application Development.
List of contents
Introduction 1
1 Introduction to REALBasic 5
2 Programming with REALbasic 11
3 Classes and Objects 83
4 Cross-Platform Application Development 143
5 Designing a Desktop Application 213
6 XML and Advanced Text Processing 321
7 Console Programming and the Shell 407
8 Databases451
9 Networking and Internet Programming 489
10 Graphics 533
11 Scripting and Txtending REALbasic 571
A Appendix 597
Index 615
About the author
Mark Choate's experience includes eight years of Internet development and content management at The News and Observer Publishing Company. Under his leadership, they were one of the first newspapers in the country to publish classified ads on the Web. Most recently, he joined Quoin, Inc., content management and online publishing practice. They develop content management solutions for media and other organizations with Cocoon and Lenya. Mark's particular area of expertise is with cross-media publishing tools (print and online), as well as Semantic Web technologies (RDF and metadata). For two years, he has used REALbasic to develop cross-platform tools for use in content management systems.
Summary
Targeted to developers who may or may not be new to the REALbasic platform and written by a writer and developer with REALbasic experience with input and guidance from REAL Software, this book shows how to take advantage of the cross-platform abilities of REALbasic and teaches how to create cross-platform applications.
