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QuickTime X plays movies full screen for free

Posted by Dave on June 8th, 2009

According to the latest reports from WWDC, QuickTime X finally brings the one feature that’s been missing for years: full-screen playback for non-Pro users.  It’s long been a bugbear of QuickTime users and developers that you have to buy QuickTime Pro to play movies at full screen.  It looks as though QuickTime X (currently being [...]

Using Subversion and REALbasic for version control

Posted by Dave on March 20th, 2007

Recent versions of REALbasic contain a new “Version Control Project” format. This saves the project as a whole bunch of text files. With these files, you can use a version control system such as Subversion (SVN) to manage changes in your REALbasic project. This article shows you how to set up Subversion [...]

Creating Universal Binary Mach-O plugins for REALbasic

Posted by Dave on August 21st, 2006

I’ve put together an Xcode template for creating Universal Binary Mach-O plugins for REALbasic. The template will compile a dylib for PPC, and a bundle for Universal Binary – and put these in a plugin folder ready for conversion to a .rbx file.

Automating multilingual application build for web distribution in REALBasic using AppleScript

Posted by Dave on August 18th, 2005

I’ve put together a sample AppleScript to automate REALbasic multi-lingual build and dmg packaging for Internet distribution. Documentation (such as there is) is in the script, line by line.
Edit: This doesn’t work (yet) with REALbasic 2005. Seems that RB 2005 isn’t yet AppleScriptable. Bah.

Managing translations in REALbasic using Microsoft Excel

Posted by Dave on August 12th, 2005

I was having trouble using REALglot for OS X, so I came up with my own method of doing REALbasic project localisation for REALbasic 5.5.5, using constants, via an Excel spreadsheet and the “Export module as XML” feature. I find this to be a really handy way to share the localisation task with [...]