REALbasic: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition
by Matt Neuburg


Unconfirmed error reports are from readers. They have not yet been 
approved or disproved by the author or editor and represent solely the
opinion of the reader. An errata list maintained by the author can be found at:
http://www.tidbits.com/matt/rberrata.html.

If you have technical questions or error reports, you can send them to
booktech@oreilly.com.  Please specify the printing date of your copy.


This page was updated May 16, 2003 


Here's a key to the markup:

        [page-number]: serious technical mistake
        {page-number}: minor technical mistake
        <page-number>: important language/formatting problem
        (page-number): language change or minor formatting problem
        ?page-number?: reader question or request for clarification


UNCONFIRMED errors and comments from readers:


{148}  Example 4.3 (hasher.hasher);
One line reads:

Redim itsArray(size)

When it should read:

itsArray.myRedim(size)


also, line 5 of the example -
     self.itsarray(i) = new myCArray(-1)
should be:
     self.itsArray(i) = new myCArray(-1)


{163}

i = countfields ("Mississippi" , "s") //5

should read

i = countfields ("Mississippi" , "s") //4


{166}  3rd paragraph, starting "If the text to be converted...";
The description of breaking strings into substrings of 512 characters will not always 
yield the correct result for some double-byte languages.

Some languages, such as Japanese, contain a mix of single-byte and double-byte 
characters, and thus breaking a string into 512-byte substrings will eventually result 
in a 2-byte character being split in half, and the subsequent conversion will not work. 
Plus, the next 512-byte substring will convert erroneously until the characters resync 
themselves (because Japanese has some characters where the 2nd byte is also a valid 
1st byte in the sjis encoding).


{209}  First text paragraph (after code);
The text reads "When the user chooses the Preferences menu item. your Application's
subclass's HandleMenuItems event can respond"

It should read "HandleAppleEvents event" as there is no such thing as
"HandleMenuItems"