July 2009 NewsletterREALbasic and REAL Studio 2009 Release 3 Now Shipping! REALbasic and REAL Studio 2009 Release 3 is now shipping, adding more than 100 improvements and 31 new features. This release includes the addition of OpenGL support for 3D images and animation. "REALbasic is powerful enough to allow me to develop 2D applications requiring a complex interface faster than any other compiler," commented Stephan Keith, a REALbasic Developer. "With the introduction of OpenGL to REALbasic, and its extraordinary interface development tools, I should be able to develop 3D applications 50% to 70% faster over those using traditional C-programming methods." The new OpenGLSurface control does require a knowledge of the OpenGL language. However, there are some open source projects that are implementing a RB3D-compatible API on top of the OpenGL for developers who currently use RB3D. Check out Release 3 today! Cocoa Update As you know, we are working hard to transition from Carbon to Cocoa. The included pictures below demonstrate the great progress we are making. PagePanels are working as well but it's difficult to show that in a screenshot since they have no user interface. The HTMLViewer is almost done. The major items remaining are:
ContainerControl Contextual Menus Drag and Drop Toolbars MouseCursor Combobox DataControl GroupBox MoviePlayer PasswordField (a new control)
For those of you that have had trouble using composite windows, you will be happy to know that those problems will all disappear. Composite windows are not well supported by Carbon but they are the ONLY type window there is in Cocoa and are thus well supported. We believe we will be feature complete in September. Once we are feature complete, we want to allow for as much beta testing time as is necessary to ship a high quality release. Remember that we will continue to support Carbon for long after we start supporting Cocoa so you will be able to take your time in transitioning from building your apps using Carbon to building them with Cocoa. And again, this should require little to no effort on your part to make this transition.  HTMLViewer action running via Cocoa |
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