RB Sauce - REALbasic tips, tricks, & tools

FILES AND FOLDERS

AbsolutePath is Evil! (Usually)
File drag-and-drop demystified
Getting your icons right
FolderItem pitfalls
Saving a file/folder location
Getting the application directory
How "Version Information" Is Used

INPUT

Keyboard layout differences

USER INTERFACE & DISPLAY

Flickering
Control arrays
A control's "Parent" vs its "Window"
Ampersands (&) in control titles
Cross-platform menus
DoEvents vs UserCancelled
Getting MouseUp events
Composite window pitfalls
Windows UI thread pitfalls
Drawing right/centered strings
Multi-line strings
Dragging
  MouseDrag called repeatedly
  MouseMove not called
Subclassing windows
  When to initialize
Sorry, no control bundles
Hiding Listbox columns

NETWORKING

Aaron's Socket ReadMe
Routers and UDP

LANGUAGE

"Extends" pitfalls
"For each" pitfalls
Where are all the string functions?
Objects vs non-objects vs strings vs arrays
Array speed: Dim vs Append
Open events: what you can and can't do
No class.Name property

TEXT

Joe's TextEncoding FAQ
Who should care (answer: you)
Extended ASCII is a myth

MATH

Val pitfalls
Rounding pitfalls
Random pitfalls

COMING FROM C/C++

Life without:
multiple inheritance
++, +=, etc
Callable constructors

COMING FROM VB

VB Converter

IDE

Import in alphabetical order
External items pitfalls

TIME & DATE

Using ParseDate and Date

DATABASES

Value vs StringValue
Column vs table.Column

PRINTING

What you can't do
Multi-page printing

Joe's 3D FAQ
Lars' 3D ReadMe
Why can't I see anything?
Masks in 3D (vs 2D)
Transparent pictures
Fringe colors
Bit depth and dithering

DOC ERRORS

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INCOMPATIBILITIES

On Macintosh
Haxies (by Unsanity)
On Windows
MacroMagic
VirtualPC shared folder

KEY RESOURCES

REAL Software Feedback
RB Developer magazine

Third-Party Sites:
  RB Garage
  RB Game Central
  The Athenaeum
  How Do I...?

Books:
  RB: The Definitive Guide

Code/components:
  MBS Plugin
  CarbonDeclareLibrary
  DocApp (template)
  UTool (template)
  FolderManager
  WindowManager