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- REALbasic Cross-Platform Application Development
- REALbasic Cross-Platform Application Development
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- We Want to Hear from You
- Reader Services
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Introduction to REALbasic
- What s New in REALbasic 2005
- Deciding if REALbasic Is Right for You
- Strengths and Weaknesses
- Who Should Read This Book
- What You Can Expect
- Chapter 2. Programming with REALbasic
- Defining a Computer Program
- REALBasic Terminology
- Quick Start: A Simple Web Browser
- Procedural Programming in REALbasic
- Flow ControlConditionals
- Flow ControlLoops
- Variants
- Modules
- Creating the StringParser Module
- Summary
- Chapter 3. Classes and Objects
- The Class Hierarchy
- Creating a New Class
- Declaration and Instantiation
- Constructors and Destructors
- Garbage Collection
- Inheritance
- Object Operators
- Adding and Overriding Methods
- Calling the Overridden Method
- Overloading
- Casting
- Oddities
- Encapsulation
- Access Scope: Public, Private, Protected
- Setting Properties with Methods
- Default and Optional Parameters
- Declaring Variables Static and Const
- Revisiting the StringParser Module
- Example: Creating a Properties Class
- Data-Oriented Classes and Visual Basic Data Types
- Advanced Techniques
- Chapter 4. Cross-Platform Application Development
- That Other Cross-Platform Language
- Compiling REALbasic Applications
- Configuring the Compiler
- The App Class
- Files and Directory Organization
- Compiler Directives
- User Interface Differences
- System Module
- Windows Registry
- RSSReader Preferences Example
- A Final Word About Macintosh
- Summary
- Chapter 5. Designing a Desktop Application
- Integrated Development Environment
- Desktop Applications: Programming Graphical User Interfaces
- Model-View-Controller
- Windows and Controls
- Managing Windows
- Controls
- Exception Handling
- User Interface Response
- Menus and Menu Handlers
- CustomTray
- Summary
- Chapter 6. XML and Advanced Text Processing
- Encoding
- XML Processing
- Regular Expressions
- StyledText
- Summary
- Chapter 7. Console Programming and the Shell
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