REALbasic
Year In Review

  Without a doubt, this has been one heck of a year for RB. At the start of this year, it was somewhere around DR1r20. Now, it's at DR1r35. That's almost 73 releases (including things like DR1r34a, b, c and the Fs). It's also about a new version once five days. If anything, this proves that Andrew Barry, programmer extroardinare, is an update-o-holic.

  Here are (in my opinion), some of the major events for RB in this year:

• Name is changed from "CrossBasic" to "REALbasic"
• RB 1.0 is released
• MacAddict Magazine uses RB for "The Disc" program
• HTTP, FTP, Hotline, POP3, SMTP, IRC, and several other internet standards are supported by reusable classes.
• RB Monthly is launched–hey, what would the world be like without us!?
• The REALbasic Café is founded.
• The TabPanel, Slider, SpriteSurface, and all the new DR2 controls are introduced.
• Plugins are supported.
• Global Floaters allow extensions to be made in RB
• "Text Guessing" is introduced to the text editor
• Styled text fields
• Picture Transparency
• Folders in project windows

  That should just about do it. Much more has happened, but I'll leave that for another day. Also, just to mirror Time Magazine, I'll give out this year's "RB Man of the Year" award to Andrew Barry, its programmer. Who else?