I'm the guilty party of posting that. Along with Python/Dabo, REALbasic
is of great interest for me for my non-VFP development efforts. I
thought that other VFP developers might want to know of it's existence
and perhaps take a look.
Real Software is making great strides with their 10 year old product.
It seems to have really caught fire since 2004 however. Just like VFP,
a large portion of REALbasic is written in ... REALbasic. Go figure!
It seems to me that a large number of RB programmers are from the Mac
world. I believe that this is the case because there aren't that many
RAD tools in the Mac world.
One thing to remember, is that RB is *not* a VB clone. It's fully
object oriented, strongly typed, and the syntax is different in several
(many?) places. It is similar to VB and they try to make it easy for VB
developers to come across. Wouldn't you if you owned Real Software?
I'm starting a new company with my wife. Since we're almost completely
a Linux based family, I needed an application that I could write for
Linux so that my wife could run it. The two choices were Dabo and RB.
I am *very* excited about Dabo and I think its future may even be
brighter than RB. I decided to kick the tires of RB for this project
however.
It's an application where most of the CRUD stuff is in forms hitting a
MySQL server. The end product of this business will be a custom made
book, printed and bound, custom for each client. For that, I'm going to
use a VFP process of some kind, using LaTeX to end up with PDFs that get
uploaded to LuLu.com for printing. I'm hoping to write an article for
Foxpro Advisor and to release my VFP classes open source if it all works
out.
Anyway, I'm getting off topic from RB. I've blogged some about RB if
you care to look:
http://cullytechnologies.com/ctblogdetail.php?key=150
http://cullytechnologies.com/ctblogdetail.php?key=153
http://cullytechnologies.com/ctblogdetail.php?key=154
http://cullytechnologies.com/ctblogdetail.php?key=155
http://cullytechnologies.com/ctblogdetail.php?key=156
Is RB as good as VFP? No.
Is RB as stable as VFP? No.
Does RB handle data as easily as VFP? No.
Is RB free like Python/Dabo? No.
But just like Dabo, it's an awesome thing to be able to write
applications for 99% of all desktops and servers, compared to only 90%
as VFP can do. If that trips your trigger, then give RB a try. It's
pretty good.
Disclaimer: I love VFP and will probably make most of my money off of
VFP development/consulting for the next 10 years. Don't beat me up!!!
Kevin Cully
CULLY Technologies, LLC
Sponsor of Fox Forward 2006!
http://foxforward.net
Alan Bourke wrote:
> I noticed a fox.wikis.com entry from Kevin Cully about this - it's sort
> of a VB6 clone that compiles to native Windows, Linux and Mac
> executables, and has an IDE for each of those platforms as well. It has
> its own single user db, and can talk to MySQL and any ODBC database
> driver.
>
> Surely coupled with MySQL this is the holy grail for cross-platform
> database-centric development? I've heard and seen good things about
> Realbasic from the indie games development world, but is there anyone
> using it in anger for the sort of things we do with VFP ??
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