Opinions on REALBasic

Viro

Viro

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I've just received my REALBasic key and so far, I've found REALBasic to be a rather neat development environment. Coming from a C++/Java background, its rather easy to pickup the language.

Perhaps my opinions on it will change once I start writing serious apps in it, but for now the impression is a positive one.

Does anyone else here use RB? If so, what do you think of it?
 
I've never actually used REALBasic but I have heard very good things about it, it sounds like a very powerfull tool, good luck with it!
- mike
 
REALbasic is great for small programs that don't really do much. But for big time programs that you can sell and such...well...I suggest something else.

It is possible to program larger apps, but it just takes a lot more patience, time, motivation, and coffee.
 
A friend of mine is quite successful in writing complex apps in RB. He did some time-critical functions in C which he embedded into his RB programs as plug-ins. Overall, RB seems very powerful and flexible to me. I would use it if I weren't such a C/C++ geek and if I didn't have a commercial Qt license :)
 
Apparently, Microsoft use REALbasic to prototype their applications, which is a bit of a ringing endorsement when you think about it.

I used the demo to create a near-working version of an program I've been trying to develop for a while.

I was quite impressed with how quickly I put the thing together.

My only problem is the lack of documentation available. This might have changed now, but I couldn't find anything on the internet and the only books I could find only dealt with version 2 and below.

So I had to abandon it.

If anyone knows some good places to pick up tutorials and books, I might be tempted to get back into it...
 
There is good documentation for RB: Just click "Help" and then "Language Reference".

The only problem with that is that you need to know what function you are looking for, but I've never had much of a problem finding functions, they tend to be logically named.

I used RB though, and never found it to be particulary good. Having now learnt C and getting on with Obj-C, I am amazed at how much easier it is to achieve the desired results.
Not to say RB isn't good, but because it is high level, you lose a bit of power, and that can make a lot of things more difficult to do.
 
I've found the documentation that comes with REALBasic (i.e. the Developer guide and Language Reference) to be very helpful.
 
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