Realbasic Tutorial

WWWREALBASICCOM 4UTORIAL REALbasic 2006 Tutorial Documentation by David Brandt. Concept by Geoff Perlman. © 1999-2005 by REAL Software, Inc. All rights reserved. WASTE Text Engine © 1993-2005 Marco Piovanelli Printed in U.S.A. Mailing REAL Software, Inc. Address 1705 South Capital of Texas Highway Suite 310 Austin, TX 78746 Web Site http://www.realsoftware.com ftp Site ftp://ftp.realsoftware.com Support Submit via REALbasic Feedback at www.realsoftware.com Bugs/Feature Submit via REALbasic Feedback at www.realsoftware.com. Requests Sales sales@realsoftware.com Phone 512-328-REAL (7325) Fax 512-328-7372 Version 2006r3, June, 2006. Contents CHAPTER 1 Introducing REALbasic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 How to Use this Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Who Should Use this Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Presentation Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Lesson Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 On Your Mark, Get Set, Go! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 CHAPTER 2 Creating Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Starting Up REALbasic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 The Project Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Building a Document Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Adding an EditField . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Configuring TextField as a Text Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 CHAPTER 3 Creating Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Working with Text Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Creating the New Menu Item. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Handling the New Menu Item . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 CHAPTER 4 Opening and Saving Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Saving Documents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Adding the Save Menu Item . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 REALbasic User’s Guide 1 Contents Adding Properties t…