[Ham-Mac] Re: Mac Software for PSK31

[Steve Muncy]

Actually, REALbasic has had the capability to compile for both Windows 
and Mac for at least two or three years, I think. What's new is a new 
version of REALBasic that runs UNDER windows, and will compile for both 
Mac and Windows.

I've tried compiling some programs for the Windows environment using 
REALBasic a year or two ago and never really liked what I  got, but 
maybe things  have improved since I last tried it.

I believe  the 'source code converter' is actually supposed to convert 
VisualBasic code to a  REALBasic format so you can more easily convert 
VisualBasic programs. REALBasic was originally designed to be similar 
to VisualBasic, and offer a path from VisualBasic on the PC to 
REALBasic on the Mac. I don't know how successful this migration has 
been....but REALBasic has become a really great tool  for creating 
programs on the Mac.

I don't know of any converter that will convert C, C++, Paschal, or 
other common languages used for Widows PC development to REALBasic, so 
porting to REALbasic  from these languages would be a really big 
task--basically rewriting the whole program. If such converters exist, 
please enlighten me!! I'd love to see  it.



On Saturday, May 24, 2003, at 09:28 US/Central, Richard Kriss wrote:

> I was pleased to see that at least on member of this forum was using
> ReadBasic. I understand the new RealBasic5 does both windows and osX 
> and
> they even offer a free source code converter.
>
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