FAQ
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions and code fragments.
- A toolbox call needs a rect - how do I give it one?
- Can anyone help me convert seconds to time in this format hh:mm:ss?
- Can you get an unique machine ID?
- ChartDirector: Alignment Specification
- ChartDirector: Color Specification
- ChartDirector: Font Specification
- ChartDirector: Mark Up Language
- ChartDirector: Parameter Substitution and Formatting
- ChartDirector: Shape Specification
- Do you have code to validate a credit card number?
- Does any one have additional information on URL Access error codes?
- folderitem.absolutepath is limited to 255 chars. How can I get longer ones?
- Has anyone played round with using CoreImage to do things like add dissolve transitions say when changing from one tab to another within a window?
- How can I disable the close box of a window on Windows?
- How can I get all the environment variables from Windows?
- How can i get similar behavior to Roxio Toast or iTunes where clicking a 'burn' button allows the next inserted blank CD-R to bypass the Finder and be accepted by my application?
- How can I get the item string for a given file creator?
- How can I get the short name from a filename?
- How can I launch an app using it's creator code?
- How can I set the file comment using AppleEvents?
- How can I validate an email address?
- How do I check if the QuickTime component for the JPEG exporting is available?
- How do I check if the QuickTime component for the JPEG importing is available?
- How do I check if the QuickTime component for the Sequence grabber is available?
- How do I decode correctly an email subject?
- How do I enable/disable a single tab in a tabpanel?
- How do I find the root volume for a file?
- How do I get the comment of a file?
- How do I get the current languages list?
- How do I get the Mac OS Version?
- How do I get the printer name?
- How do I make a metal window if RB does not allow me this?
- How do I make a smooth color transition?
- How do I truncate a file?
- How do update a Finder's windows after changing some files?
- How to access a USB device directly?
- How to ask the Mac for the Name of the Machine?
- How to bring my application to front?
- How to change the name in the menubar of my app on Mac OS X?
- How to check on Mac OS which country or language is currently selected?
- How to check whether a folderitem is in the LoginItems?
- How to collapse a window?
- How to compare two pictures?
- How to compile PHP library?
- How to convert a text to iso-8859-1 using the TextEncoder?
- How to convert cmyk to rgb?
- How to copy parts of a movie to another one?
- How to delete a folder?
- How to disable force quit?
- How to do a lottery in RB?
- How to do an asycron DNS lookup?
- How to draw a dushed pattern line?
- How to draw a nice antialiased line?
- How to draw into a CGContext using DrawThemeTextBox?
- How to enter the debugger on MacOS 7-9 with a message?
- How to enter the debugger on MacOS 7-9?
- How to find iTunes on a Mac OS X machine fast?
- How to get an handle to the frontmost window on Windows?
- How to get good crash reports?
- How to get the available memory to my application?
- How to get the available system memory?
- How to get the color for disabled textcolor?
- How to get the current free stack space?
- How to get the current timezone?
- How to get the current window title?
- How to get the cursor blink interval time?
- How to get the list of the current selected files in the Finder?
- How to get the Mac OS system version?
- How to get the Mac OS Version using System.Gestalt?
- How to get the screensize excluding the task bar?
- How to get the size of the frontmost window on Windows?
- How to get the source code of a HTMLViewer?
- How to get the version information for a Mac OS application?
- How to get this abbreviated Mac Classic file name?
- How to hide all applications except mine?
- How to hide the mouse cursor on Mac?
- How to keep a movieplayer unclickable?
- How to know how many CPUs are present?
- How to know if a movie is finished?
- How to know if QuickTime is installed on any target and can play MPEG 4 movies?
- How to know if QuickTime is installed on any target?
- How to launch an app using it's creator code?
- How to make a background only application on Mac OS?
- How to make a lot of changes to a REAL SQL Database faster?
- How to make a window borderless on Windows?
- How to make an alias using AppleEvents?
- How to make an application smaller?
- How to make AppleScripts much faster?
- How to make double clicks on a canvas?
- How to make my Mac not sleeping?
- How to make small controls on Mac OS X?
- How to move an application to the front using the creator code?
- How to obscure the mouse cursor on Mac?
- How to quit windows?
- How to read the command line on windows?
- How to restart a Mac?
- How to save a quicktime movie as a reference movie?
- How to scale/resize a picture?
- How to see how much memory is free (biggest block) for launching apps?
- How to see if a file is invisible for Mac OS X?
- How to see if Aqua is available?
- How to see if my PPC app is running in Classic inside MacOSX?
- How to set the modified dot in the window?
- How to show Keyboard Viewer programmatically?
- How to show the mouse cursor on Mac?
- How to shutdown a Mac?
- How to sleep a Mac?
- How to use PDFLib in my RB application?
- How to use quotes in a string?
- How to use the Application Support folder?
- How to use the IOPMCopyScheduledPowerEvents function in Realbasic?
- I registered the MBS Plugins in my application, but later the registration dialog is showed.
- I want to accept Drag & Drop from iTunes
- I'm drawing into a listbox but don't see something.
- I'm searching for a method or so to move a window from position x.y to somewhere else on the screen.
- If I use one of your plug-ins under windows, would this then impose the use of dll after compilation or my would my compiled soft still be a stand-alone single file software?
- Is the fn key on a powerbook keyboard down?
- Is there a way to use the MBS plugin to get only the visible item and folder count on a volume?
- Is there an easy way I can launch the Quicktime preferences panel?
- Is there an example for vector graphics in REALbasic?
- Missing function CFArrayMBS in CFObjectMBS class.
- Missing function CFBagMBS in CFObjectMBS class.
- Missing function CFBinaryDataMBS in CFObjectMBS class.
- Missing function CFBooleanMBS in CFObjectMBS class.
- Missing function CFDictionaryMBS in CFObjectMBS class.
- Missing function CFNumberMBS in CFObjectMBS class.
- Missing function CFSetMBS in CFObjectMBS class.
- Missing function CFStringMBS in CFObjectMBS class.
- Missing function CFURLMBS in CFObjectMBS class.
- Missing function NewCFArrayMBSHandle
- Missing function NewCFBagMBSHandle
- Missing function NewCFBinaryDataMBSHandle
- Missing function NewCFBooleanMBSHandle
- Missing function NewCFDateMBSHandle
- Missing function NewCFDictionaryMBSHandle
- Missing function NewCFMutableArrayMBSHandle
- Missing function NewCFMutableBagMBSHandle
- Missing function NewCFMutableBinaryDataMBSHandle
- Missing function NewCFMutableDictionaryMBSHandle
- Missing function NewCFMutableSetMBSHandle
- Missing function NewCFMutableStringMBSHandle
- Missing function NewCFNumberMBSHandle
- Missing function NewCFObjectMBSHandle
- Missing function NewCFSetMBSHandle
- Missing function NewCFStringMBSHandle
- Missing function NewCFTimeZoneMBSHandle
- Missing function NewCFURLMBSHandle
- Missing function QTTrackMBS.SetTrackClipMask
- Missing function SoftDeclare.loadlibary
- Missing function System.xxx
- Pictures are not showed in my application. Why?
- Realbasic doesn't work with your plugins on Windows 98.
- Realbasic fails to cast to CFArrayMBS from CFObjectMBS with an IllegalCastException.
- Realbasic fails to cast to CFBagMBS from CFObjectMBS with an IllegalCastException.
- Realbasic fails to cast to CFBinaryDataMBS from CFObjectMBS with an IllegalCastException.
- Realbasic fails to cast to CFBooleanMBS from CFObjectMBS with an IllegalCastException.
- Realbasic fails to cast to CFDictionaryMBS from CFObjectMBS with an IllegalCastException.
- Realbasic fails to cast to CFNumberMBS from CFObjectMBS with an IllegalCastException.
- Realbasic fails to cast to CFSetMBS from CFObjectMBS with an IllegalCastException.
- Realbasic fails to cast to CFStringMBS from CFObjectMBS with an IllegalCastException.
- Realbasic fails to cast to CFURLMBS from CFObjectMBS with an IllegalCastException.
- REALbasic or my RB application itself crashes on launch on Mac OS Classic. Why?
- Textconverter returns only the first x characters. Why?
- What does the NAN code mean?
- What font is used as a 'small font' in typical Mac OS X apps?
- What is the replacement for PluginMBS?
- What to do on Realbasic reporting a conflict?
- What ways do I have to ping?
- Where to get information about file formats?
- Where to register creator code for my application?
- Why application doesn't launch because of a missing ddraw.dll!?
- Why application doesn't launch because of a missing shlwapi.dll!?
- Why does folderitem.item return nil?
- Why does I hear a beep on keydown?
- Why doesn't showurl work?
- Will application size increase with using plugins?
- With the MenuMBS class I can set menu icons fine with Realbasic 4.5, but not with Realbasic 5.5/2005. What can I do?
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