- Platform: Mac, Mac OS X
- Media: CD-ROM
- Item Quantity: 1
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Product Description
Amazon.com Product Description
REALbasic is a powerful, easy-to-use tool for creating your own software for Macintosh, Mac OS X, and Windows. It runs natively on Mac OS X, as well as Mac OS 8 and 9. REALbasic allows almost anyone to build software to solve problems, run a business, or just have fun.
Simply drag and drop elements into your application's windows and dialog boxes to create anything from a small utility, to a large application, or the next great game. Experiment, explore, learn, and innovate as you build your applications step-by-step while REALbasic handles all the details for you.
From the Manufacturer
REALbasic... the powerful, easy-to-use tool for creating your own software for Macintosh, Mac OS X, and Windows.
What can you do with REALbasic?
LEARN to create your own software – it’s fun with REALbasic! It’s easy for beginners and powerful enough for professionals. Tutorials, documentation, and hundreds of examples are included with this package. Plus, if you know Visual Basic, learning REALbasic will be even easier!
CREATE any type of application for Macintosh and Windows with REALbasic. Whether you are in business, education, or science – or you just want to have fun – join the thousands of people worldwide who have developed database systems,* utilities, productivity tools and games using REALbasic. You can even import Visual Basic forms and code.
SHARE – compile your applications for Mac OS 8 & 9, Mac OS X, and Windows 95* through XP. You can give them away to anybody, create shareware or sell them commercially.
Even if you’ve never programmed before, you’ll have your first application running in one hour!
System Requirements
- PowerPC Macintosh (including G3/G4)
- Mac OS 8.1+, including Mac OS X
- 10 MB of available RAM
- 20 MB free HD space
Human Requirements
- Ages 9 to 90
- No programming experience required
Box Contents
- 120-page printed tutorial
- CD with product and 1,000 pages of documentation on disk
- Examples and tutorial files on CD
* Database capabilities and Windows compilation are features of REALbasic Professional. Customers who purchase REALbasic Standard can upgrade to Professional. REALbasic Standard Edition enables you to test drive Professional features before upgrading. REALbasic Standard-to-Professional upgrade details are included in this package.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
REALbasic Rocks!,
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This review is from: REALbasic Standard Edition 4.5 (CD-ROM)
I'll let you know right off the bat here, I love to use REALbasic, and I have done so for about three years now as an avid Mac hobbyist programmer. REALbasic lets you write your own stand-alone applications for both the Mac and PC platforms. I don't do Windows, but I have shared an item or two with some of my PC users friends, much to their amazement.REALbasic is a rich development environment for both professional, beginner and the curious. For me it has been a teaching tool. I always wanted to try and write my own programs, and now I can! I have tried many other programming languages and either found them too hard or not engaging enough to commit the time to learn them. Don't be fooled, any programming language takes a bit of time to learn, but for me, REALbasic has been totally worth it. With REALbasic you can create an almost endless array of software titles. Anything from games to serious work related applications. I'm like a guy tinkering in his wood shop in the garage, I'll jump from subject to subject building little sample projects, like a little paint program, a GPS reader and a hang man game, to name a few. One of the most surprising elements of using REALbasic, is the amount of support you can get from the developers of REALbasic, REAL software and the hordes of REALbasic users everywhere. The net is full of web sites that feature REALbasic examples. If you subscribe to the REALbasic New User group, you can post most any question or problem you have and I assure you, you will receive a quick and useful response. Learning by examples is a great way to learn to program. REALbasic's interface is similar to a drawing program, a natural and familiar way of doing things on a Mac. You select an item from a tools palette and drag it to a window area you are working on. This allows you to graphically place the buttons, text and other things that you need for your program to interact with your user. Geeky word for this is User Interface (UI). REALbasic's programming language is as you would expect, a version of BASIC. This is a modern BASIC language that encourages and supports the concept of Object Oriented Programming. Code is executed in a hierarchy of events. REALbasic can be purchased in several versions, that is, there is a professional version and a standard edition. Optional packages are offered in the form of CD examples, Developer Documentation and Language References. REALbasic is upgraded with a new version about every six months or so. Theses upgrade prices are very reasonable and will vary depending on which version you have and the extra's you want. My favorite area's in REALbasic are: 1) Drawing. Sounds silly, but getting your computer to "draw" things on your screen is not easy! 2) RB3D Space. REALbasic has a very cool "class" that lets you draw things in three dimensions. Very cool. 3) The on-line reference. At anytime, you hit command-one and up pops your handy dandy reference area. 4) The auto complete feature. Most languages are strict when it comes to typing in the right typed words. This one little simple feature will save you countless hours of typing. 5) As I've said above, the supportive nature of the people who make REALbasic. When was the last time Mr. X from company ABC emailed you with a response to a question you had about their software you just purchased? If you're ready for a new challenge and adventure in to the area of computer programming AND you own a Mac, get REALbasic.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Very powerful for the price,
By aokjoey (Brick, NJ) - See all my reviews
This review is from: REALbasic Standard Edition 4.5 (CD-ROM)
I have used this product since its first commercial release. It is fairly easy to learn, is very powerful and the professional edition (you can upgrade from this version) allows you to use create database and Windows applications.I used this product to develop a very sophisticated spacecraft simulator A-OK! The Wings of Mercury. I also use it as a consultant programmer. REALbasic programming work accounts for over 80% of my revenue. The best thing about this product is not the product, but the people behind it. REAL Software is a very dedicated bunch of folks. Additionally, there is a real growing community of users that support each other. From old hand like myself (software developer for over 22 years) to newbies, all are welcome and all help each other. It's not perfect, bugs do creep up, but REAL Software is always participating in discussion boards and mailing lists and is VERY responsive to fixing critical bugs. REALbasic gets updated about twice a year. The upgrade prices are reasonable. Even the Professional version is much less expensive that other development systems. I am convinced that this product will become the number one method of developing software for the Macintosh in the coming years. Additionally, it will also provide a nice alternative to using Visual Basic for developing Windows applications. Great product, great company.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
REALbasic is awesome,
By BradRhine "bradrhine" (Lancaster, PA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: REALbasic Standard Edition 4.5 (CD-ROM)
This is a fantastic development environment, especially for those who are fairly new to programming. I tried to learn several other languages, but could never grasp the concepts. REALbasic is easy to learn and use, and it's also helped to understand object orientation as a plus. If you can afford, spring for the Professional version instead of Standard. That buys you database access to a variety of back ends and Windows compilation.
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