REAL Studio 2011 Release 4.3

REAL Studio (formerly REALbasic) is the powerful integrated development environment (IDE) that enables users at all levels to create powerful stand-alone, native applications quickly and easily, without having to learn a complex programming language such as C.

Create software faster, enjoy increased productivity
REALbasic is a rapid application development (RAD) environment that provides developers a marked increase in productivity over other cross-platform development tools. REALbasic includes drag-and-drop capability to enable you to quickly create a user interface design, then incorporate the code behind it to add power and functionality.

Migrate Visual Basic applications to Linux and Mac OS X
REALbasic is highly compatible with Visual Basic, so Visual Basic developers are productive very quickly with REALbasic. REALbasic also comes with a utility to help convert Visual Basic projects to REALbasic where they can be compiled for Windows, Mac, even Linux -- with the click of a checkbox.

Create native cross-platform software
REALbasic 2006 runs on an creates software for Windows 98, NT, ME, 2000 and XP, Mac OS X and Linux, all from a single set of source code. REALbasic incorporates platform-specific intelligence, like user interface widgets, so software created with REALbasic looks and feels native, regardless of the development platform you created it on.

Create powerful database applications
Build powerful database applications with REALbasic's built-in REAL SQL Database, based on the SQLite public domain database engine. Connect to external multi-user database engines using REALbasic Professional Edition.

Create graphics for multimedia applications or games
Use REALbasic's support for standard image formats for vector graphics, (such as those commonly created with Adobe Illustrator). Use REALbasic's Real-time 3D Engine to add interactive real-time rendered three-dimensional graphics with built-in tools. Also, use REALbasic's Sprite Animation Engine to develop interactive sprite surfaces with collision detection already built-in.

REALbasic Standard Edition
Runs on a single platform and creates applications for that platform. Allows you to test-drive Professional Edition features like cross-platform compilation. If you want to test-drive an application it will run for five minutes.

REALbasic Professional Edition
Runs on a single platform and compiles applications cross-platform, for all three platforms, Windows, Macintosh and Linux.

Here are some key features of "REAL Studio":

Window layout editor:
· Drag and drop - Drag controls onto a window to build your user interface.
· Native support controls - REAL Studio provides more than 40 native user interface controls for each platform, including buttons, fields, lists, sliders, tab panels, and much more.
· Alignment guides - Assists in lining up controls on a window.

Code editing:
· Auto-complete - Helps you write code faster with fewer errors by offering suggestions on valid syntax.
· Syntax coloring - Use different colors to distinguish between keywords, variables, code and comments.
· Block lines - Quickly see the structure of your code.
· Code assistants - A contextual menu of syntax options that help you write code faster and with fewer errors.

Graphics:
· Bitmaps - Use the Canvas class to create and display bitmap images.
· Vector graphics - Includes a 2D vector graphics engine for spline-based images.
· Quicktime - Play and edit QuickTime movies in your applications.

Language Features:
· Modern and object-oriented - Modern, object-oriented version of BASIC. Supports inheritance, interfaces and polymorphism.
· Advanced language - The REALbasic language is strongly typed and supports RTTI (Run Time Type Information), operator overloading and try/catch exception handling.
· Memory management - Works automatically via reference counting.

Powerful framework:
· XML - Industrial-strength XML parser and generator enables you to read and write XML data with a few lines of code.
· Database - Includes a single-user desktop database engine based on SQLite.
· Regular Expressions - Adds powerful text searching capabilities to your application that supports regular expressions.

Internet-Aware:
· Socket control - Enables the development of powerful Internet client applications. Support internet protocols includes HTTP, SMTP, POP3 and UDP.
· SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) - Incorporate web services in your applications quickly and easily to provide access to live data, stock prices, weather information and more.

Learn by example:
· Example projects - Hundreds of examples are included with the REAL Studio product download.
· Hands-on tutorial - The Tutorial and Quick Start walk you through creating real-world applications and familiarizing yourself with the REAL Studio tools and commands.

Integrated help:
· Language reference - Powerful, fully searchable online reference is included in the REAL Studio product and provides instant access to details and examples on every keyword and framework class.

Language support:
· Available in 9 languages - REAL Studio is available in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
· Localize your own applications - REAL Studio applications can be localized easily to support any language.
· Unicode - With full support for Unicode built-in, REAL Studio allows your application to support multiple languages simultaneously.

Extensible:
· Plug-in development - Includes a software development kit (SDK) for creating cross-platform plug-ins for REAL Studio.
· REALbasic, Best Programming Language

Deployment:
· Native code - Compile your applications down to machine code. No interpreter or virtual machine is required.
· Royalty-free - You are free to sell the applications you create with REAL Studio or give them away for free without ever paying a fee to REAL Software.

Requirements:

· Minumum: 512 MB of available RAM; Recommended 768 MB of available RAM.
· Minumum: 600 Mhz G3; Recommended 800 Mhz G4.
· Intel or PowerPC Macintosh.

Limitations:

· 30 days trial period.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Greatly Improved Support for Cocoa: Significant improvements have been made in this release on Real Studio’s Cocoa-based Mac framework and many projects will now simply work when built with it. There are more than 60 Cocoa-specific bug fixes in this release.
· Alpha Channels: Graphics now have support for opacity allowing colors to be drawn that are anywhere from totally opaque to completely transparent.
· Improved Graphics on Linux: On Linux printing at a high resolution can now be done just as it would on Windows or Mac OS X.
· Improved Graphics on Linux: Graphics on Linux now supports smoother drawing, anti-aliasing, translucency, and hardware acceleration.
· Improved ODBC Support: Prepared Statements are now supported for ODBC which improves security.
· Portuguese Support: The Real Studio IDE has now been fully localized into Portuguese.