REALbasic 2009.4.0.0

REALbasic 2009.4.0.0 is designed to be an innovative and efficient utility which can help users create software faster and enjoy increased productivity.

REALbasic is a rapid application development (RAD) environment that provides developers a marked increase in productivity over other cross-platform development tools. REALbasic includes drag-and-drop capability to enable you to quickly create a user interface design, then incorporate the code behind it to add power and functionality.

Benefits:

• Migrate Visual Basic applications to Linux and Mac OS X: REALbasic is highly compatible with Visual Basic, so Visual Basic developers are productive very quickly with REALbasic. REALbasic also comes with a utility to help convert Visual Basic projects to REALbasic where they can be compiled for Windows, Mac, even Linux -- with the click of a checkbox.
  
• Create native cross-platform software: REALbasic runs on and creates software for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, all from a single set of source code. REALbasic incorporates platform-specific intelligence, like user interface widgets, so software created with REALbasic looks and feels native, regardless of the development platform you created it on.
  
• Create powerful database applications: Build powerful database applications with REALbasic's built-in REAL SQL Database, based on the SQLite public domain database engine. Connect to external multi-user database engines using REALbasic Professional Edition.
  
• Create graphics for multimedia applications or games: Use REALbasic's support for standard image formats for vector graphics, (such as those commonly created with Adobe Illustrator).

Major Features:

1. Window layout editor
   • Drag and drop: Drag controls onto a window to build your user interface.
   • Native support controls: REALbasic provides more than 40 native user interface controls for each platform, including buttons, fields, lists, sliders, tab panels, and much more.
   • Alignment guides: Assists in lining up controls on a window.
2. Code editing
   • Auto-complete: Helps you write code faster with fewer errors by offering suggestions on valid syntax.
   • Syntax coloring: Use different colors to distinguish between keywords, variables, code and comments.
   • Block lines: Quickly see the structure of your code.
   • Code assistants: A contextual menu of syntax options that help you write code faster and with fewer errors.
3. Graphics
   • Bitmaps: Use the REALbasic Canvas class to create and display bitmap images.
   • Vector graphics: Includes a 2D vector graphics engine for spline-based images.
   • Quicktime: Play and edit QuickTime movies in your applications.
4. Language Features
   • Modern and object-oriented: Modern, object-oriented version of BASIC. Supports inheritance, interfaces and polymorphism.
   • Advanced language: The REALbasic language is strongly typed and supports RTTI (Run Time Type Information), operator overloading and try/catch exception handling.
   • Memory management: Works automatically via reference counting.
5. Powerful framework
   • XML: Industrial-strength XML parser and generator enables you to read and write XML data with a few lines of code.
   • Database: Includes a single-user desktop database engine based on SQLite.
   • Regular Expressions: Adds powerful text searching capabilities to your application that supports regular expressions.
6. Internet-Aware
   • Socket control: Enables the development of powerful Internet client applications. Support internet protocols includes HTTP, SMTP, POP3 and UDP.
   • SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol): Incorporate web services in your applications quickly and easily to provide access to live data, stock prices, weather information and more.
7. Learn by example
   • Example projects: Hundreds of examples are included with the REALbasic product download.
   • Hands-on tutorial: The REALbasic Tutorial and Quick Start walk you through creating real-world applications and familiarizing yourself with REALbasic tools and commands. These are available both in print for purchase and in .pdf for download.
8. Integrated help
   • Language reference: Powerful, fully searchable online reference is included in the REALbasic product and provides instant access to details and examples on every REALbasic keyword and framework class.
9. Language support
   • Available in 8 languages: REALbasic is available in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
   • Localize your own applications: REALbasic applications can be localized easily to support any language.
   • Unicode: With full support for Unicode built-in, REALbasic allows your application to support multiple languages simultaneously.
10. Extensible
    • Plug-in development: Includes a software development kit (SDK) for creating cross-platform plug-ins for REALbasic.
11. Deployment
    • Native code: Compile your applications down to machine code. No interpreter or virtual machine is required.
    • REALbasic, Best Programming Language Royalty-free: You are free to sell the applications you create with REALbasic or give them away for free without ever paying a fee to REAL Software.