I have two related questions, both of which ultimately have to do with
situations where I want to use a lot of Methods from one REALbasic
program in another REALbasic program.
First, I know that you can't have two instances of the REALbasic IDE
open at the same time. (Well, technically that's not entirely true.
There is a trick that involves, I think, holding down the CTRL key while
loading in the second instance of the RB IDE into Windows, but when I've
done that, usually one of the instances seems to be instable.)
Second, one solution (at least theoretically) to the problem of getting
a lot of Methods from one RB program to another is to load a plain text
listing of the Methods into a plain text editor and then just use copy
and paste to get Methods from one to the other.
BUT how can one create such a text listing of the RB program? What I
want is what you get when you tell the RB IDE to _print_ the program,
but that is neither .RB nor .XML format. Is there some way to tell the
computer (in this case, a Windows PC), "OK. I want a plain text
listing, but I want it in a disk file, not on paper"?
What I want is, again, a plain text listing of my .RB program, and not
some file in some strange format with all kinds of printer codes
intermingled. When I print from the RB IDE, I'm not given a choice of
"print to disk," and even if I were, the resulting disk file would
probably contain control characters and such.
I know there are "fake" printer drivers that will print to disk instead
of to a printer, but they usually do things like convert the output to a
disk file in some special format like PDF or something like that.
The first question then is this: how can I get a plain text listing of
my RB program on disk that looks like what you get when you print the
listing on a printer?
The second question is similar: If that can't be done, what IS the
easiest way to get a lot of Methods from one RB program to another?
(It's a real pain to load one program into the RB IDE, copy a Method,
load in the other RB program, paste the Method, load in the first RB
program, copy a Method, load in the second RB program, paste the Method,
etc., etc.).
Barry Traver
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