REAL Software Ships REAL Studio 2010 Release 1

REAL Studio 2010 Release 1 is now shipping. With this release we have changed the name of the IDE (Integrated Development Environment) to REAL Studio. The programming language will continue to be called REALbasic. REAL Studio is available in three editions: Personal Edition, Professional Edition and Enterprise Edition (formerly REAL Studio). The main reason for this product name change is to make it easier to differentiate between the development environment and the programming language. Additionally, this change better demonstrates what a powerful and professional development tool REAL Studio is.

REAL Studio 2010 Release 1 adds 46 improvements and 17 new features, including improved Active X support. Now most Active X controls work and are much easier to work with. All events are supported and auto-complete has also been improved. With this release REAL Studio is now available in a 9th language, Korean.

One final change we have made with this release is that we have changed our product documentation to a wiki format. This change will enable us to offer improved and more up-to-date documentation, localize more quickly and allow for members of the community to contribute. The wiki documentation is still in beta and for this release only we will continue to offer the standard PDF documentation. Also, starting with this release printed documentation will no longer be sold from our website. There are, however, a number of company’s that will print and bind a PDF for you, like FedEx Kinko’s, if you require printed documentation. The wiki documentation is available at http://docs.realsoftware.com. If you are interested in helping to improve the wiki documentation you should contact Customer Service at custserv@realsoftware.com.

To view the complete list of improvements and new features in REAL Studio 2010 Release 1, please visit the product release notes in the download section of our website, http://www.realsoftware.com/download.

Yet another Cocoa update

I know that many of you are anxiously awaiting our switch from Carbon to Cocoa for Mac OS X. I want to give you a quick update on that. We are about 95% feature complete at this point. There are only a few things left to implement. There are however, a lot of bugs to fix and as we fix them, I'm sure more will be reported.

The transition to Cocoa has been a far bigger project than we had initially thought. I have recently learned that several large Mac software companies, with names that I'm sure every one of you would immediately recognize, have also had a very difficult time transitioning their Mac Carbon apps to Cocoa. Some have had a couple of failed attempts while others have scrapped huge amounts of code and are basically rewriting their software from scratch. They all have much larger engineering teams than we have and none of them are shipping their Cocoa versions yet.

Fortunately, you will be insulated from all of this. For the most part you will just recompile your projects. It it should be fairly pain-free.

The important thing is to ship a quality product that you can count on. We will keep working each day until we feel it is truly going to meet your expectations. Only then will we ship it. That won't be for 2010 R1. If you would like to follow our progress more closely, join the betas list and you can test your projects with the betas that have Cocoa enabled. We would appreciate the feedback.

Sale Announcement

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REALbasic and REAL Studio 5.1 is Now Shipping

REALbasic and REAL Studio Release 5.1 is now shipping. This release fixes some important issues with the new REALSQLDatabase plug-in. To view all of the improvements in this release, please view the release notes on the product download page: <http://www.realsoftware.com/download>.

Your REAL Software Website Account & Other Tips

Hi REALbasic Users,

It's been a year since we introduced the new REAL Software Website and the feedback has been very positive! Following are some tips on how to take full advantage of all the great features.

How to Register your Account:
To register your Account select the "Create New Account" button at the login page:

http://www.realsoftware.com/account/login.php

Enter the email address linked to your REAL Software Account to receive an email with instructions on how to create a log in. If you are unsure what email address is linked to your Account email Customer Service.

Once logged into your Account you can access all your License Keys, your Order History and any Previous Downloads available for those keys.

Did you Register but don't see all of your keys in your Account? It's possible you have created more than one account. Send an email with your keys and/or email address to Customer Service and we can merge all your accounts together. You may find you have expired keys you didn't even remember you owned! Just yesterday a long time user of REALbasic was planning on purchasing a new Windows Pro key, upon registering his Account he learned he owned an expired Windows Pro key already! He purchased a Renewal instead and saved $149!

In your Account you can also update your contact information. Keeping your email address current will keep you informed of REAL Software special offers and discounts throughout the year.

You can contact us at custserv@realsoftware.com if you have any questions about your Account, or anything else REALbasic, and we will be happy to assist you further.

5.1 is coming

Due to some important issues with the new REALSQLDatabase plug-in, we are going to release 5.1 around the middle of the month.

REAL Software Ships REALbasic and REAL Studio 2009 Release 5

REAL Software began shipping REALbasic 2009 Release 5 today. This release continues with a focus on quality and addressing the needs of our customers by adding 68 improvements and 17 new features. This release introduces support for Linux distribution Ubuntu 9.10 and includes an updated SQLite version.

"We recently introduced a new feedback system that allows users to rate the importance of bugs and new feature requests," commented Geoff Perlman, REAL Software Founder and CEO. "This new system has allowed us to really focus on the quality improvements for this release that are most important to our customers."

The complete list of improvements and new features in REALbasic 2009 Release 5 can be found in the release notes in the product download section, www.realsoftware.com/download.