Real Basic Tutorial

REALbasic Tutorial Documentation by David Brandt and Dave McCollum; concept by Geoff Perlman. © 1999-2000 by REAL Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in U.S.A. Mailing Address REAL Software, Inc. 3300 Bee Caves Road Suite 650-220 Austin, TX 78746 Web Site http://www.realsoftware.com ftp Site ftp://ftp.realsoftware.com Support support@realsoftware.com Bugs/ bugs@realsoftware.com Feature Requests Sales sales@realsoftware.com Phone 512-263-1233 Fax 512-263-1441 V 2.1, April 2000 Contents CHAPTER 1 Introducing REALbasic 7 How to Use this Manual . . . . . . . . . .8 Who Should Use this Manual . . . . . . . .8 Presentation Conventions . . . . . . . . .9 Lesson Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 On Your Mark, Get Set, Go! . . . . . . . 11 CHAPTER 2 Creating Windows 13 Starting Up REALbasic . . . . . . . . . . 14 REALbasic’s Windows . . . . . . . . . . 15 Building a Document Window . . . . . . 16 Adding an EditField . . . . . . . . . . 17 Configuring TextField as a Text Editor . . 21 Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 CHAPTER 3 Creating Menu Items 27 Adding a Select All Menu Item . . . . . . 28 Adding the Menu Item . . . . . . . . 28 Enabling the Menu Item . . . . . . . . 30 Handling the Menu Item . . . . . . . . 31 Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 CHAPTER 4 Working with Documents 35 Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Working with Text Documents . . . . . . 36 Creating the New Menu Item . . . . . 36 Enabling the New Menu Item . . . . . 37 Handling the New Menu Item . . . . . 38 File Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 REALbasic Tutorial iii Contents Saving Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Adding the Save Menu Item . . . . . . 41 Adding Properties to TextWindow . . . 41 Enabling the Menu Item . . . . . . . . 43 Adding a SaveFile Method . . . . . . . 44 …