What's New in REALbasic

REALbasic 2008 Release 3

REALbasic 2008 Release 3 shipped on July 8, 2008 and offered several new features, including a new Attributes language feature, an update to the project analyzer to include warnings of deprecated functionality and other code issues, and an integrated profiler that allows programmers to track down performance issues within their applications quickly and without any additional coding.

Also included will be the ability to add types within classes and several improvements to the recently added introspection functionality. There are numerous fixes and improvements.

Learn more about attributes.

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REALbasic 2008 Release 2

REALbasic 2008 Release 2 shipped on May 6, 2008 and offered several new features, including:

Pairs: Pairs allows developers to easily define key/value pairs and define linked lists. Click here to read more about Pairs.

The release also increases functionality to the introspection feature. The release includes several new capabilities involving remote debugging and bug reporting that simplifies testing and reduces developer overhead.

REALbasic 2008 Release 1

REALbasic 2008 Release 1 shipped on February 11, 2008 and offered several new features, including:

Introspection: Introspection provides the ability to determine the type and characteristics of an object at runtime. Properties and methods can be accessed in a generic way without having to know the specific type of that object before the code is compiled. This capability allows for more advanced dynamic programming techniques to be used in REALbasic applications.

REALbasic 2007 Release 5

REALbasic 2007 Release 5 shipped on November 13, 2007. This release included over 100 improvements to REALbasic and it supports Apple's latest Leopard OS.

REALbasic 2007 Release 4

REALbasic 2007 Release 4 shipped on September 10, 2007 and offered several new features, including:

Ubuntu Support: Ubuntu version 6.06 and later is now officially supported. REALbasic 2007 Release 4 is now released as a deb package for easy installation on Ubuntu.

Faster ODBC: The ODBC plug-in has been optimized to provide significantly faster performance.

Faster Database Access: The REALbasic database API is now significantly faster when iterating through a recordset using the Field function. When combined with the new ODBC plug-in, customers have reported a 20x speed improvement in the performance of some database operations.

Debugger Improvements: Debugger console applications have been enhanced by the addition of properties that simulate command line arguments. The debug application location may now be set by the developer.

Delegates: New delegate datatype provides an abstract representation of a method, allowing variable implementation of a specific invocation.

REALbasic 2007 Release 3

REALbasic 2007 Release 3 was released on June 12, 2007 and added several new features, including:

Namespaces: The REALbasic language and compiler now support namespaces, allowing developers to place classes, interfaces and modules inside modules. This enables the design of more modular, reusable code.

REALbasic 2007 Release 3 also addresses problems reported in previous versions of REALbasic. All users of previous releases are encouraged to migrate their development to this release.

REALbasic 2007 Release 2

REALbasic 2007 Release 2 was released on April 2, 2007 and added several new features, including:

Code Folding: REALbasic now supports collapsing and expanding blocks of code in the code editor. This makes code easier to debug and maintain.

Incremental Compilation: The REALbasic compiler now compiles only the parts of your project that have changed since the last compile. This results in faster compilation and improved developer productivity.

RTF Support: The EditField now supports saving and loading styled text content in the RTF format.

Debugger improvements: The REALbasic debugger has been improved in several ways. The debugger now show the values of more objects, including RecordSets, ListBoxes, PopupMenus and ComboBoxes, while debugging. The debugger also now allows more application properties and variables to be changed while debugging.

Menu Editor: The Menu Editor now scrolls horizontally and vertically to support the creation of very large menu structures.

Weak References: A weak reference provides a reference to an object while still allowing that object's memory to be reclaimed. A common use for weak references is to implement a cache of objects without requiring that an object be kept alive solely because it appears in the cache.

REALbasic 2007 Release 2 also addresses problems reported in previous versions of REALbasic. All users of previous releases are encouraged to migrate their development to REALbasic 2007 Release 2.

REALbasic 2007 Release 1

REALbasic 2007 Release 1 was released on January 2, 2007, adding:

Improved Universal Support: Increased reliability on Intel-based Macs.

Improved Database Support: Increased support for REAL SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL and ODBC.

New Quicktime Functionality: Allows developers to have increased control when creating and saving editable movies.

Support for HTTPS Proxies: Adds additional security and increased flexibility for networks that require the use of a proxy, allowing for server side operations to accept incoming connections with SSL.

Windows Vista Functionality: REALbasic and applications built with REALbasic will now run on Windows Vista. This release added functionality to make it more consistent with Windows Vista's user interface guidelines.