The Best of Both Phone, and TabletREALbasic 3.5.2 for Mac User Reviews
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"Not Recommended.......yet."
Version: REALbasic 5.2.4
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
I've been using Realbasic 5 for about a week now. It has excellent potential but its not there yet....actually its far from it.
I'm trying to develop an app cross-platform (Mac - WinXP) and there are tons of bugs and discrepancies. Oh ya, not to mention lots of limitations.
I'm also trying to use REALDatabase....another headache. There are more bugs than I remember already.
I would have thought that by now Real Software would have mastered this app but they need lots more work. -
"The GoatCactus approves of REALbasic."
Version: REALbasic 4.5.2
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
Voice of the GoatCactus is written in REALbasic. The GoatCactus approves of, and recommends, REALbasic wholeheartedly. The language is object-oriented, the price is right, the mailing lists are a terrific resource, and the PR department will even distribute your press release for you! -
"I think it's great"
Version: REALbasic 5.2.1
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
Has always helped me out a lot as well. I too know obj C, c, C++, java, etc. and Realbasic really shines when cross-platform development is needed. Many clients need windows-compatible apps, but I refuse to program on that platform - so realbasic solves this and lets me compile everything (usually perfectly) for it. Great app in my opinion. -
"Still the best..."
Version: REALbasic 5.2.1
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
... for cross-platform development. There are a lot of critics of REALbasic, but RB is much like any other development environment. Basically, an application made in RB will be as good, or as bad, as the programmer working on it. REALbasic's biggest shortcoming is that it doesn't enforce good programming techniques like other environments. It's a little easier for a programmer to write bad code.
But as long as you know what you're doing, the sky's the limit. There are $15,000 programs written in RB. -
"Re: blueskymining"
Version: REALbasic 5.2
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
blueskymining - I have no idea why fc4 and fc5 were posted to versiontracker, it certainly was not something that was intended to happen. But regardless, $99.95 is the price for the standard RB license for version 5. v5.2 is a free upgrade to v5, and it's not like you'd pay $99.95 for the prerelease version and then pay again for the full one. -
"15 Mb or more Quicktime files still causes runtime..."
Version: REALbasic 5.2fc4
Summary
...errors
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
Just as the title says. Version 4.5x at least runs my RB app with several QT files totaling 15 Mb or more with no problems, yet despite several people submitting the same bug reports on it, RB 5.x still crashes when I try to run the same file. When oh when will they fix this? Until then, i'll stick to version 4.5x. -
"Very good product!"
Version: REALbasic 5.2fc4
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
Fun to use to make dialogs that control applescripts. Kind of expensive but much easier than Apple's developertools. AppleScript Studio has potential. -
"It is still buggy but getting better"
Version: REALbasic 5.2fc4
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
This is actually RB 5.2fc4, why they call it beta4 I don't know. There are still quite a few bugs remaining and I am disappointed that they will soon start work on 5.5 or 6.0 or whatever they decide to name it and introduce even more bugs. I think for a beginner this is a great language and there is a great community for support.
The reason the compiled apps are so big is that they link the entire runtime to the exe. Future versions will include a smart linker that will only link the parts of the runtime that are needed. This will shrink the application size enormously.
I only wish REAL Software would listen more to the majority of their customers that are saying to fix all the bugs before releasing a new paid for upgrade.
All things considered I consider REALbasic a great app with a few flaws that will eventually get ironed out. -
"But..."
Version: REALbasic 5.1
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
I have a simple program that only has a few lines. Yet my finished OSX product in v4.02 was 1.7mb, v4.51 was 2.0mb, and v5.1 was 1.5mb. I'm dismayed that such a short bit of code ends up as such a large program. I suppose that's the sacrifice we make for an easy-to-use system, but surely there must be a way to make these compiled programs smaller. I guess that this "overhead" pays off for larger programs.
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