This sounds great. Good luck with it. John Oliva
> -----Original Message----- > From: Barry Traver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 12/21/2005 7:53 AM > To: Getting Started > Subject: [ANN] New Blog: RB's: "Where's the Beef?" > > > I've started a blog with the stupid title "RB's: 'Where's > the Beef?'" > You can find it at the following URL: > > http://traverrb.blogspot.com/ > > The goal is not only to have at least one new entry of comments about > REALbasic every two days, but also to have at least two new REALbasic > programs each week . These programs can be found at the > following URL: > > http://traver.org/traverrb/ > > Most of the programs will be "simple samples," which indicate > one way to > do a particular task. Some of the tasks may be trivial or > even useless, > but the goal is to provide code not so much for "professional > programmers" as for those who are just "Getting Started" with > REALbasic. Thus the emphasis will be on shorter programs (called > "TraverToys") which will be primarily examples to learn from > (although > there will also be some larger programs as well from time to time). > > Most of the time, the blog - like REALbasic itself - will be > "cross-platform" (applicable to Mac, Windows, or Linux), but > sometimes > there will be an entry or a program that is Windows-specific. That's > because I'm running REALbasic in Windows, and like to make use in > REALbasic of some of the API calls that I made use of when I was > programming primarily in Visual Basic for Windows. If you've > got a Mac > or are using Linux, just ignore the material that doesn't > apply to you. > If something is Windows-specific, I'll make that clear. > > Why did I start this blog/programming project? Two reasons: > (1) there > are few books on RB compared with VB, and (2) not much source code is > publicly available for RB compared with VB. If people show > interest in > the blog (and the accompanying programs) by sending me a > private email > or posting a comment from time to time, I'm hoping that - little by > little - it will become the largest public repository of RB > source code > written (or modified) by a single person. (But I do need to receive > encouragement that my project is useful and worthwhile.) > > Two TraverToys are available thus far. One simply removes > blank lines > from RB source code. The other is able to determine whether > a text file > is Mac-format, Linux-format, or Windows-format. The TraverToys are > cross-platform. Also available is a Windows-specific > CardTrick program, > using the Windows Cards.dll. > > Enjoy! > > Barry Traver > > _______________________________________________ > Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: > <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> > > Search the archives of this list here: > <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html> > _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
