Realbasic

Xojo (formerly REALbasic and REAL Studio ) is an object oriented programming language with visual development environment for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows and is based in their commands and the syntax of the programming language BASIC.

Properties

Xojo is very similar to Visual Basic 6, so that it is currently very popular with Visual -Basic -6- followers who do not want to switch to. NET. Xojo comes with a large library of elements. A separate version of the development environment for Linux has been available since 2005.

Xojo program code is also on the other platforms (especially Windows, Linux, MacOSX and Web) are compiled, creating stand- alone applications, start applications or even web applications for the system ( with no changes there will be no additional runtime Environment ). Said Web application is based on CGI, while the stand-alone on the Coco / Mono Framework. For each platform specific changes directives are implemented that allow to adjust the source accordingly. Up to version 5.5.5, the IDE was still running natively on Mac OS 9, subsequent versions were able to compile Mac OS 9 applications to 2007 Release 3.

History

REALbasic was originally developed by the American Andrew Barry under the name CrossBasic, then as a pure Macintosh software. Since CrossBasic was both very easy to use, however, give professional programs could be developed so quickly was a great community. From the original hobby project ( Barry was a professional game developer ) was the late 1990s, a commercial software: The current owner and CEO, Geoff Perlman, bought the project and founded in Austin (Texas ), the Real Software Inc. Despite some initial difficulties REALbasic is now the leading BASIC development environment on the Mac.

Since June 4, 2013 means the development environment and programming language Xojo.