The cross platform advantage is only true to a point. I found I needed to use win32 native api's very early on in the piece and of course the moment you do that you no longer have cross platform. It supports activex but not all com so that is another limitation I could not live with. Regards, John.

I hadn't programmed since I worked in borland turbo asm so when I started using Realbasic it gave me back the power to control my computer with my own code. It is initially very easy to get started in, much much easier than dotnet. Unfortunately, about the time you get up to speed with it, you realize that it is very limited and that to gain the required functionality you have to spend a lot with third party developers. If you read the Realbasic forums long enough you will get the general idea of what I am saying here. I switched to VB.net and rewrote everything. I was amazed at how much better the dotnet environment was and absolutely loved VB. However, I decided to bite the bullet and then rewrote everything again in C#. I now personally feel that C# is the best way to go, especially because it gets you into the c family of languages the code of which is everywhere. I now find C# much easier than VB but that is personal. Back to Realbasic though. This is the first time I have actually spoken out somewhat against Realbasic and this is because I do respect what the small team there are doing but in the end things have moved on and the huge freedom available in dotnet make it very rewarding. Realbasic is not cheap and the add-ons aren’t either, Visual Studio Express is free. Regards, John.