Our latest Updates

To celebrate the launch of the new website and forums we're having a sale! You can get a 33% discount off any and all our controls (either the standard or professional licenses) until midnight on Wednesday 18th January simply by entering the discount code newwebsite at the checkout. This is an offer to good to miss!

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Finally, the website redesign is "finished". I originally hand-coded the site back in 2008 and, largely, it served me well.  I started running into frustrations as we released more controls in that it became quite a chore to hand-code each page individually and keeping the site dynamic was becoming more of a challenge. I've always used WordPress to power Figa's blog and so it made sense to migrate to a wholly WordPress setup. We're now running a custom theme but with some nice widgets and plugins (including our own RBCode plugin).  I've also just finished migrating the forums over to XenForo...

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We're pleased to announce the immediate availability of our latest control for REALbasic - FGThumbnailCanvas.   What is it? It's an easy-to-use drop-in control for REALbasic to let you display thumbnails to your users in a gorgeous way. It is easily able to mimic the look of Apple's iPhoto and Aperture. It's written entirely in native REALbasic code and requires no third party plugins to function. Features Cross-platform. Looks great on both Mac and Windows Fully Cocoa compatible Flicker-free on Windows Fast and scalable (can easily handle thousands of images - drawing only those...

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Before starting work on our first app I decided to do some research on version control.  To cut a long story short, I've settled on Mercurial and a private repository hosted by Bitbucket.   You need* to work with RB's VCP file format. This simply stores each object as it's own separate file. The file structure I've adopted for our new project is as follows:     The reason for the External Items folder is that when RB saves in the VCP format, it doesn't save the external items in the same folder (in our example, Code).  Since we're going to get Mercurial to track the MyApp...

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We've been beavering away in the Figa laboratory on our first Mac App.  REALbasic's Cocoa support has reached the point that it's probably fit for everyday use despite still being classed as beta.  Given that Carbon apps are starting to look dated and (from what we've heard) Carbon apps will look worse than a baboon's bottom in Lion, we've decided that the app will be compiled with the Cocoa framework only.   What does this mean?  Well, our app needs to provide a unified toolbar.  This is the toolbar that loads of Mac apps possess.  Here's a piccy of the Finder's:   REALbasic provides...

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Still plodding along with the redesign. The home and about pages are now finished.  I just need to redo the product pages and add a forum and we'll be there. Work has started on our first Mac app.  More on this later.

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Having spent the last 3 days hand coding this Wordpress theme I'm very tired. This post is just to say hello and make sure the theme is working.  Stay tuned for updates on our first app that's currently under heavy development. In the meantime, this article explains why pigs love mud.  Weird.

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