Greg, you may get other answers, but my answer would be: "I hope not"
REALbasic is very powerful. I can make a "professional" application
with only one window (or no windows if I want), it's own file type,
external modules, a database, interaction with and manipulation of the
operating system, a unique icon, furthermore my new application can in
turn be an application development IDE of it's own with it's own
language and so on. Or it can be an address book, a text editor, a
drawing program, a grandma kiosk, a kid's email or anything else I can
dream up.
How could anyone anticipate all the ways that developers will chose to
roll out their applications and provide one step by step guide -
impossible. Rolling out an app to peers via a newsgroup would be
handled differently than to a workgroup in an office or via a shareware
website - each group of users would have a different level of
understanding and require a different level of hand-holding.
I'm still learning - the books you mentioned are all good, but there's
nothing like trial and error, digging into the language reference and
just doing it.
How to make a professional application - you can start with that little
app that has one menu and one window and build that - see what it
produces, move it around, see what happens, change the icon etc. That's
what I intend to do and when it produces unexpected results, I'll
review the steps and see if I missed something and if I'm really
stumped I'll ask here for guidance but I'm going to know how to turn
the key in the front door and make sure it opens before I've gone and
built the whole house just in case the door ends up in the wrong place.
Take care, Margaret
On 27-May-04, at 11:27 AM, GAmoore at aol dot com wrote:
Is there a book, web page, or Real Basic pdf document that has an
outline of
what steps are needed to create a complete professional application? I
feel
like I am building a house, and there are hundreds of little things to
know -
like the wiring, the plumbing, the framing, the drywall, the paint, the
flooring.
It seems 2 of the 4 RB books (the dummy/idiot guide, and the
quickstart) are
good for getting started from zero. Matt's book has really excellent
details
but seems out of date, and its hard to use as a reference since there
are
internal cross references.
I really appreciate this list to help sort things out, and to point me
in the
direction of what to lookup in the reference manual at times. But I
would not
have to bother others with simple questions if there were more of a
direct
reference. Is this other book like that?
Greg
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