http://rbnation.com/blog REALbasic Programming Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:40:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Back in the good ol' days you could use a menu option to "bind" a pushbutton to a listbox which made it really easy to keep someone from clicking the button if there wasn't a row selected in the listbox. That feature no longer exists in REALbasic, but it's really super-simple ... http://rbnation.com/blog/?p=21 My son and I are starting a new site for people who are programming games using Torque Game Builder. I'm still going to be doing more REALbasic videos, but my son is really into gaming and TGB is a really cool platform to build games together. =:) http://rbnation.com/blog/?p=19 Someone on the forum was asking how to make an editfield automatically tab to the next editfield when a maxChars limit was reached. Even though the following video is a bit on the "rough" side, it explains at least one way to accomplish that. Auto-Advanced EditFields (link opens in new window) Sample code: ... http://rbnation.com/blog/?p=17 Sheesh, time can get away from you. =:) I've been so busy earning a living that I haven't taken time to continue posting here -- which is actually normal for the typical blog. However, I've been continuing to code in RB and am gearing up for a series of tutorial videos, so ... http://rbnation.com/blog/?p=15 REAL Software just sent out a newsletter and listed the dates of next year's REAL World conference: May 4-6, 2009 It's cool that we know so far ahead of time... ...but it's MORE than a whole year away! =:( Well, make plans for it now -- I'd like to meet you there! Jay http://rbnation.com/blog/?p=14 I figure that since [Yuma](http://yumadev.com) is REALbasic under the hood (kind of ) that it should be fair game for this blog. =:) This morning, instead of going to bed like I ought, I stayed up and wrote my first Yuma code. It's very simple, just opens a SQLite database ... http://rbnation.com/blog/?p=13 I put together a special report that went along with the presentation I gave at REAL World 2008 last week in Austin, Texas. That report is now available -- and you can download it whether you went to RW '08 or not. [Programming Profits](http://programmingprofits.com) If you're interested in a way to make ... http://rbnation.com/blog/?p=12 Here's another REALbasic tip that could make your listboxes better... Someone from the RB Forum asked how to know when the mouse is over the cell in a listbox. They wanted to show the original value in a static text as the mouse hovers over the cells in a certain column. That's ... http://rbnation.com/blog/?p=11 This isn't a "wrap-up" or anything like that -- I'm too wiped out to do that right now. But I will be posting more information about the conference that just ended a few hours ago. Honestly, the only reason I came was due to winning the Speaker Contest REAL Software held ... http://rbnation.com/blog/?p=10 Doing drag-and-drop between two listboxes is pretty easy with REALbasic -- just use the sample code in the Language Reference manual. But if you want to drag and drop rows that have multiple columns, you're going to need to add a little more code.This video shows how easy that can ... http://rbnation.com/blog/?p=9