REALbasic 2006 R4 review

Create software faster, 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.

License: Demo OS: Mac OS X File size: 110065K Developer: REAL Software, Inc. Buy Now Price: $99.00 Updated: 04 Oct 2006

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Create software faster, 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.

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 2006 runs on an creates software for Windows 98, NT, ME, 2 and XP, 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). Use REALbasic's Real-time 3D Engine to add interactive real-time rendered three-dimensional graphics with built-in tools. Also, use REALbasic's Sprite Animation Engine to develop interactive sprite surfaces with collision detection already built-in.

REALbasic Standard Edition
Runs on a single platform and creates applications for that platform. Allows you to test-drive Professional Edition features like cross-platform compilation; test-drive applications will run for five minutes.

REALbasic Professional Edition
Runs on a single platform and compiles applications cross-platform, for all three platforms, Windows, Macintosh and Linux.

Limitations:
15 days trial.

What's New:
REALbasic now enables more than 100, REALbasic users to build Universal Binaries for Mac OS X. A Universal Binary is a Macintosh executable that runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel-based Macs.

Requirements:
Minimum:
Mac OS X 10.2.8 or better
512 MB of available RAM
600 Mhz G3

Recommended:
Mac OS X 10.3.9 or better
768 MB of available RAM
800 Mhz G4

Macintosh Compiled Application:
PowerPC Macintosh, including G3 and G4, G5 / Intel CPU
System 9.1 or later, including Mac OS X (10.1 or later).