More Money for REALbasic Programmers
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.
If you’re interested in a way to make more money than just the traditional freelance programming route, you should get that special report.
ListBox Hover Cell
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 a screenshot of the example program I put together that shows how to accomplish that (the cursor didn’t show in the screen capture, but it’s there pointing at the cell showing Eleven).
I did change the original poster’s requirements, though — I made a window that hovers show up rather than just putting the info in a static text control.
The “magic” that allows this to happen is ListBox.RowFromXY and ListBox.ColumnFromXY — it’s not rocket science after all! =:)
You can grab the sample source code for this REALbasic tutorial from here:
http://rbnation.com/files/ListBoxHoverCell2.zip
And then look in the ListBox.MouseMove event for the code to see what’s happening.
There have been times when I’ve wanted this kind of functionality, but never took the time to see what it would take to make it work. Who knew it would be so easy? =;)
Jay Jennings
PS – No video with this one, but more REALbasic tutorial videos are on the way.
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REAL World 2008
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 — but now that I’ve seen what REAL World is all about, I’m kicking myself for not coming last year, and the year before, and…
I’m already planning on coming back next year.
There were some really good sessions but the absolute best part was meeting some of the best RB developers around the world — and the RS employees. I’d met Mars Saxman about 10 years ago (before RS existed) but it was nice seeing him again — and great meeting a lot of the RS people I only knew of as names in emails or in the forum.
One of the things this conference did was to light a fire under me and get some more REALbasic tutorial videos done — I have a list right now that I’m going to start working my way through as soon as I get back home on Monday.
So keep an eye on this spot — cool REALbasic code and stuff coming soon!
Jay Jennings