Realbasic Deprecations

De-emphasized items

• RB3D
• SpriteSurface - what's this?
• AddressBook
• DBF Plugin
• DTF Plugin

Deprecated Items

• GameInputManager- Carbon only (GameInputManager supported in 2011r4 Cocoa)
• FolderItem.OpenAsTextFile (use TextInputStream.Open instead)
• FolderItem.CreateTextFile (use TextOutputStream.Create instead)
• FolderItem.CreateBinaryFile (use BinaryStream.Create instead)
• FolderItem.OpenAsBinaryFile (use BinaryStream.Open instead)

• 2009 Release 3
• EditField (use TextField and TextArea - what's this?)

• 2010 Release 4
• StaticText class (use Label class)

• 2011 Release 1
• FolderItem.DesktopFolder (use SpecialFolder.Desktop instead)
• FolderItem.TrashFolder (use SpecialFolder.Trash instead [relativeToVolume As FolderItem = Nil])
• FolderItem.SharedTrashFolder
• FolderItem.TemporaryFolder (use SpecialFolder.Temporary instead)

Operating Systems

• Last release to support Mac OS X 10.4 (Carbon) is 2011r3
• Last release to support PowerPC for compiled apps is 2011r3.2
• Last release with IDE support for PowerPC is 2010r3.2
• Last release to officially support Windows 2000 is 2010r3
• Last release to support Mac OS 9.x & Win98 is 2007r3