- Paperback: 752 pages
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 2 edition (25 Sep 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0596001770
- ISBN-13: 978-0596001773
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 18.3 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,005,239 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Matt Neuberg's REALbasic: The Definitive Guide provides a patient and thorough introductory text for REALbasic 2.0 on the Macintosh, an object-oriented programming environment based on components and BASIC. Even if you've never programmed before, this title--combined with the power and ease of REALbasic--is all you need to start writing your own software for the Mac.
Besides a tutorial to the REALbasic tool itself, the author's introduction to object-oriented software is remarkable for its patience while getting the beginner to think in objects. (Besides an authority on Macintosh programming, Neuberg has a PhD in Ancient Greek. This book is perhaps unique in discussing objects while quoting Plato.) There is a full tour of REALbasic program statements, data types and the nuts-and-bolts of working with the environment and building basic programs.
The heart of this text covers the various controls and features available in REALbasic. The author covers simple and advanced user controls (like buttons, edit controls, menus and listboxes). Neuberg's tour here will let any reader design user interfaces and add event handlers to provide program functionality. Highlights include how to display images and do animation, sound and video within REALbasic. (Here, the author extends the already strong multimedia support in REALbasic with his own code for a simple video game.) For more-experienced users, there are how-to's on using files, databases and socket programming with TCP/IP and AppleScript.
In all, REALbasic: The Definitive Guide serves its purpose well as a one-volume reference and tutorial to getting the most out of this capable tool, whose functionality certainly rivals any of today's RAD-style programming environments. --Richard Dragan, Amazon.com
Topics covered: Overview of the REALbasic environment, BASIC language keywords, constructs and datatypes, arrays, objects, classes and instances, subclasses, events, menus, application architecture, building and debugging, window basics, system events, mouse processing, canvases and graphics, displaying images, basic controls, listboxes, progress bars, sliders, shapes, menus, tab panels, keyboard and mouse processing, files, databases, clipboard, drag-and-drop functionality, sound and MIDI, playing movies, game animations, printing, socket programming, Apple Events and AppleScript, and language extensions with XCMDs and plug-ins. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Major Kerry, AUSOM News, March 2002
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As RealBasic is an object oriented all-purpose programming language focused on beginners, it is not absurd thinking that books covering RealBasic should target on these people. However, The Definitive Guide goes one (or two) step forward and deeply explains everything you need to know about RealBasic from the experienced programmers point of view. Too little real life examples will illustrate the how-to, and therefore understanding the in-depth treatment of the information for those who want to learn how to develope programs for their beloved Macs is a hard duty.
Nevertheless, no matter what happens, this book is magnificent for those with programming experience, and specially those who have some basis on object oriented programming in other platforms.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Matt Neuberg has done a great job in making the use of REALbasic more understandable. The book is well thought out and written. The book covers not only the use of REALbasic, adding greatly to the official documentation that comes with REALbasic, but also covers areas like bugs and workarounds. Matt provides many code snippets and examples, some of which are available online. While not a book on general programming, it covers the general principles of OOP programming that underlie REALbasic. All in all a great book and indispensible and essential if you are writing programs using REALbasic.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is not compatable with current Real Basic software. Did not read past first chapter. Dumped it.
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