Greg,
Oops! Sounds like I made some assumptions that weren't valid! Perhaps
what would be helpful is a glance through a book that is more specific
to the OS. In the Windows world, there is always Petzold's Programming
Windows, but it is a bit heavy and focusses on C/C++. Perhaps this just
points to the need for one of us to write the book you are looking for.
Perhaps if we generated a list of the questions / problems we have
encountered we could generate the outline of such a book. There are
other language-specific books out there whose titles reflect this
approach - "Developing Real-World Applications With X" Is this more the
sort of thing you had in mind?
Mark
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Subject: Re: Mac REALbasic book and Windows REALbasic
Thank you for all the responses. In my personal case, I am not a
complete
novice to programming. I worked four years as a fulltime programmer
(assembly
language and fortran primarily) in the defense industry, and I have
taught
classes in Pascal and C at the college level a number of times. I have
also written
a lot of programs using the Maple (mathematics) language (which is
similar to
Pascal or RB) and about 150 examples of my work are available on their
website, and given several presentations and workshops of this software
at
mathematics conferences. And I think I have a decent intuitive feel for
making the
interface comfortable and usable and have devoted a lot of time to that.
However, I am a complete novice when it comes to interaction with the OS
(menus, file handling, email sending, etc) and external devices
(printing) etc.
For example, I still have no clear definition of what a socket is, I
just
learned that I have to put the self.close to make windows close, etc.
Actually I am very happy with this list, and there is almost always
someone
to help with every little problem I encounter. So I am very
appreciative, and
its not a bad way to learn as long as people are helpful and not
bothered by
these questions. I have tried to answer other new people's questions at
times -
despite my own novice level - in order to contribute also and try to
bridge
the gap.
Greg
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