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Errata for REALbasic: The Definitive Guide

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Version	Location	Description	Submitted By	Date corrected
Printed	Page xxiii first 4 lines	Delete the first 4 lines ("For more information... used in this book:").	Anonymous
Printed	Page 3 first sentence	Change the first sentence to: "This chapter introduces the REALbasic workspace, also known as the IDE (for integrated development environment; see the Preface, What REALbasic Is Like)."	Anonymous
Printed	Page 31 last code example	In the last code example, changed "Sub" to "Function" and "End Sub" to "End Function".	Anonymous	Mar 01, 2001
Printed	Page 41 third code example	In the third code example the comment symbols were omitted. The second and fourth lines now read: // ... [what to do if condition1 is true] ... // ... [what to do if condition2 is true] ...	Anonymous	Mar 01, 2001
Printed	Page 47 last paragraph of the Freqiently Asked Questions	In the last paragraph, the second sentence used to read "It is not an error refer to an array element ..." This sentence was missing the word "to." It now reads: "It is not an error to refer to an array element ..."	Anonymous	Jan 01, 2000
Printed	Page 49 third sentence in the fourth paragraph	The third sentence in the fourth paragraph should be in parentheses "(Except, of course... zero-based.)"	Anonymous
Printed	Page 50 The second line of the third code sample did read	myArray = yourArray Now reads: myArray = yourArray // error	Anonymous	Mar 01, 2001
Printed	Page 75 The last line of the code example did read	msgbox "MyOtherWindow has " + str(j) + "buttons." Now reads: msgbox "MyOtherWindow has " + str(j) + " buttons."	Anonymous	Mar 01, 2001
Printed	Page 79 4th para, last sentence	4th para, last sentence; the first letter of the word "each" should be roman, not italic.	Anonymous
Printed	Page 84 first line of the 2nd paragraph	In the first line of the 2nd paragraph, changed "pushButton(1)" to "pushButton1(1)".	Anonymous	Mar 01, 2001
Printed	Page 127 Fifth paragraph	Fifth paragraph: in the last sentence, replace "Finally" with "Further" and add a new ending to this paragraph: "Finally, an array wrapper class solves the problem of the unusual status of arrays in REALbasic, that they are neither a class nor a datatype; for example, you cannot declare an array of array, but you can declare an array of a class that wraps an array."	Anonymous
Printed	Page 142 first line of the first footnote	In the first line of the first footnote, the URL was misspelled. Changed "wanado" to "wanadoo".	Anonymous	Mar 01, 2001
Printed	Page 152	References to the trick of setting the totalSeconds property to itself can all be deleted; the bug has been fixed.	Anonymous
Printed	Page 157 last sentence of the last paragraph	The last sentence of the last paragraph, and the example, can be deleted; Insert and Append now work properly on Color arrays.	Anonymous
Printed	Page 161 Added the following line below the third line of the last code example	mm = newMemoryBlock(len(s)+2)	Anonymous	Mar 01, 2001
Printed	Page 162 "Being Careful"	The section "Being Careful" can be deleted. The warning about not locking down memory can be moved to the start of the section, and the warning about not writing off the end of a memoryblock is no longer needed, because REALbasic now does bounds checking to ensure that this won't happen.	Anonymous
Printed	Page 162	In both code lines, changed $FF to &hFF.	Anonymous	Mar 01, 2001
Printed	Page 218 Warning	Deleted the Warning at the bottom of the page.	Anonymous	Mar 01, 2001
Printed	Page 226	In line 1, add "or a boolean constant defined in a module" after "built-in global booleans".	Anonymous
Printed	Page 234 second sentence in the footnote	Deleted the second sentence in the footnote.	Anonymous	Mar 01, 2001
Printed	Page 262 RGBSurface discussion	In the RGBSurface discussion, there's a new feature: change "32" to "32 or 16," and add: "other Picture instances have a nil RGBSurface." Also, delete the warning; the bug has been fixed.	Anonymous
Printed	Page 287 The second code sample did read	canvas1.JLeft = canvas1.JLeft-2 canvas1.JTop = canvas1.JTop-2 canvas1.refresh Now reads: JLeft = JLeft-2 JTop = JTop-2 canvas1.refresh	Anonymous	Mar 01, 2001
Printed	Page 287 The third code sample did read	canvas1.JLeft = canvas1.JLeft-2 canvas1.JTop = canvas1.JTop-2 canvas1.scroll -2,-2 Now reads: JLeft = JLeft-2 JTop = JTop-2 canvas1.scroll -2,-2	Anonymous	Mar 01, 2001
Printed	Page 297 last paragraph	In the last paragraph, changed "Figure 11-20" to "Figure 11-21".	Anonymous	Mar 01, 2001
Printed	Page 340 Code example	Code example, 11th line, changed "theeend" to "theend".	Anonymous	Mar 01, 2001
Printed	Page 342 First code example	First code example, 2 lines from the end ("theField..."), the line needed to be tabbed one more to the right.	Anonymous	Mar 01, 2001
Printed	Page 412 fourth line of the first paragraph	In the fourth line of the first paragraph, changed "we don't the StaticTexts" to "we don't want the StaticTexts".	Anonymous	Mar 01, 2001
Printed	Page 414 second footnote	In the second footnote, changed the URL for Rolf Heller's CharKeyCode XFCN) to: http://mirror.apple.com/mirrors/info-mac/dev/card/key-xfcns-20.hqx	Anonymous	Mar 01, 2001
Printed	Page 432 Warning at the bottom of the page	Added the following sentence to the end of the Warning at the bottom of the page: "(Fixed in REALbasic 2.1.)"	Anonymous	Mar 01, 2001
Printed	Page 459 first line of the next-to-last paragraph	In the first line of the next-to-last paragraph, changed "simply send refer" to "simply refer".	Anonymous	Mar 01, 2001
Printed	Page 465 line 3 of the 2nd paragraph	In line 3 of the 2nd paragraph, changed the backtick after "snd" to a single quotation mark.	Anonymous	Mar 01, 2001
Printed	Page 470 line 2 of the first full paragraph	In line 2 of the first full paragraph, changed "pointing the file" to "pointing to the file."	Anonymous	Mar 01, 2001
Printed	Page 470 The 8th line of code in the 3rd code snippet did read	d = desktopFolder.child("testDB") Now reads: d = openrealDatabase(desktopFolder.child("testDB"))	Anonymous	Mar 01, 2001
Printed	Page 478 4th bullet paragraph	4th bullet paragraph, second line, added a hyphen at the end of the line.	Anonymous	Mar 01, 2001
Printed	Page 488 line 3 of the 3rd full body paragraph	In line 3 of the 3rd full body paragraph, changed "you have do this" to "you have to do this."	Anonymous	Mar 01, 2001
Printed	Page 490	First and second paragraphs, "EnableDrag" should be "DragRow".	Anonymous
Printed	Page 500	Deleted the last paragraph.	Anonymous	Mar 01, 2001
Printed	Page 571	In the next-to-last code block, changed "206.74.122.3" to "dict.org".	Anonymous	Mar 01, 2001
Printed	Page 576 The fourth line of the first code sample did read	ss = nthfield(reply, CRLF), i) Now reads: ss = nthfield(reply, CRLF, i)	Anonymous	Mar 01, 2001
Printed	Page 576 The 16th line of the first code sample did read	me.write("Quit" + CRLF)) Now reads: me.write("Quit" + CRLF)	Anonymous	Mar 01, 2001
Printed	Page 600 The URL for EightyRez is now:	http://www3.shore.net/~gmcgath/EightyRez.html	Anonymous	Mar 01, 2001
Printed	Page 662 Colophon: the first line of the second paragraph used to read	"Edie Freedman designed the cover of this book, using a 19th-century engraving from the Dover Pictorial Archive." It now reads: "Hanna Dyer designed the cover of this book, using a 19th-century engraving from the Dover Pictorial Archive, based on a series design by Edie Freedman."	Anonymous	Dec 01, 1999