realbasic 2008版的英语版帮助 quickstart 含18页.pdf

REALbasic Quickstart Welcome to REALbasic! REALbasic is an application builder based on a modern version of the BASIC programming language. It is made up of a rich set of graphical user interface objects, a modern object-oriented language, an integrated debugger, and a cross- platform compiler. With the graphical user interface, you can build your application’s interface simply by dragging and dropping interface objects into the application’s windows and dialogs. We will show you how easy it is in this QuickStart. Together with REALbasic’s object-oriented language, debugger, and cross-platform compiler, it makes up REALbasic’s Integrated Development Environment or IDE. REALbasic provides you with all the tools you need to build virtually any application you can imagine. This QuickStart is for people who are new to programming and new to REALbasic. It will give you a gentle introduction to the REALbasic development environment, lead you through the development of a real application, and show you what kinds of other applications can be built with REALbasic. You will build a simple web browser that uses REALbasic’s built-in HTML rendering control. It should take you 15-20 minutes to complete this Quickstart . Presentation Conventions The Quickstart uses screen snapshots taken from the Windows and Macintosh versions of REALbasic. REAL Software also offers a Linux version of REALbasic. The interface design and feature set are identical on all platforms, so the differences between platforms are cosmetic and have to do with the differences