REALbasic was created by Andrew Barry. It was originally called CrossBasic due to its ability to compile the same programming code for Mac OS and Java. In 1997 CrossBasic was purchased by PYI Software which renamed it REALbasic as well as renaming the company REAL software. At this time they dropped the Jave target, later replacing it with a Windows target and database support. The IDE is now available for Microsoft and can compile applications for Windows, Mac OS X.

Want a personalized web browser? Here is a way to do it, with REALbasic 2008 (Note that this won't work on versions of REALbasic that don't have a HTML viewer)

1. 1
   Drag a editField, a PushButton, and a HTML viewer to the window editor
2. 2
   Put the editField in the Top Left corner of the window
3. 3
   Put the pushButton in the Top Right corner
4. 4
   Put the HTML viewer in below the editField and pushButton
5. 5
   Click on the editField and look to the right of the window, change EditField1 to Location
6. 6
   Click on the pushButton and change its name to LoadPage
7. 7
   Click on the HTMLviewer and change it's name to Browser
8. 8
   Check all four of the "Lock" checkboxes on the HTMLviewers properties
9. 9
   Check LockTop and LockRight on the pushButton properties
10. 10
    Check LockLeft, LockTop and LockRight on the editfield settings
11. 11
    Change the PushButton caption from "Untitled" to "Go"
12. 12
    Enter the following code into the "Go" Button (Double-Click on it): Browser.LoadURL Location.Text
13. 13
    That's it! You're all done! Personalize your browser by putting pictures on the window!

REALbasic

My computer teacher, from back in the day, taught me this wonderful application called REALbasic. REALbasic is used to create your own applications! If you want to download REALbasic today click this link: http://www.realsoftware.com/ I recommend this application to everyone all around the world! It's great for when your bored and its productive too! Yes I said productive! You can learn so many cool things about computers from this application. When I was a youngling a long time ago, I loved this application, and when I say loved I mean LOVED! My mother would always have to come into my room and threaten me to get off to do my homework! I was utterly addicted! (Not in a bad way though) I made so many apps, and computer was my new favorite subject in school, even better then lunch!