"Yogi Yang" <✉gmail.com> wrote in message 
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>> I tried realbasic.  I really tried.  The problem is, while the language
>> itself is fine and pretty complete and cross platform, its IDE is 
>> painfully
>> limiting.  You can only see one function at a time, for example.  And 
>> since
>
> Which version of RealBasic did you try? I still use Version 5.5 Pro

The current one.  I really like the concept, but limiting the editor to one 
function at a time is downright painful.  How do you build classes like 
that?  And no, there's practical way to edit entire code files.  There's an 
export, which really doesnt help.  That makes it very, very limiting to 
anything other than trivial apps.


And dont even get me started on the documentation.  F1 brings up a pdf, not 
a help file.  Though there is a help file for the language... its not very 
fleshed out.


If it had a command line compiler, or a better IDE, and some other tweaks to 
appeal to the more hardcore programmers, I'd say they would have a winner 
and Delphi would have a serious competitor.  But as is, not so much.