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If you need to track what’s going on in your RB-App, this is the way to go. It simply implements the “Debug.Print” method and logs the messages to a floating window, a text file – or (OS X only) to the system console. All of this works cross-platform and is as customizable as it’s “Plug and play”.

Debug Object can be configured through XML code by means of my realXML parser class. You can disable this feature, but I can really recommend it as it makes runtime configuration a snap!

This software is released under the LPGL. In short, this means that you can use it safely even in commercial applications, but if you find any bugs or add any features to the module itself, you will need to make it available to others, too.

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This program backs up any REALbasic project file in regular intervalls, so you can easily go back to a previous version if necessary. Since this has proven to be quite handy even for some other files (Photoshop works well!), I spiced it up a bit and made it public.

The download includes the full source code as well as binaries.

Version 1.1 for MacOS X
Version 1.0 for Classic MacOS (PPC and 68k)

Ever got letter soup and don’t know how to clean it up?

TextConverter offers an easy and user friendly interface to your Macintosh’s text encoding converter functions. Additionally, it features an html-entity converter and an option to define your own custom encoding.

TextConverter was designed for MacOS 8 or later and runs fine in the MacOS X Classic environment. The current version is 1.0.2. Of course it’s Freeware.

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This is a simple Mac-like port of the U*ix “fortune” command line tool. It includes the original fortune database so there’s no lack of geeky saying for every day. Examples please? Here they are:

 A tautology is a thing which is tautological.

 A long memory is the most subversive idea in America

 Computers are useless - they can only give you answers

                                -- Pablo Picasso

Fortune was designed for old 68k-Macs running MacOS 6 or later and works fine with MacOS 9.x, but is not recommended for use in the MacOS X Classic enviroment.

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