[Year 12 Its] REALbasic 4 Mac, Win & now Linux

[Con Zymaris]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 03:20:30PM +1000, tonym school wrote:
> Hi all
> 2 key questions for me are:
> Is Real Basic an approved language for Info Sys?

That I can't answer ;-)

Hopefully the courses are not tied _that_ much to specific vendors'
products... 

> Can it be used to put a "front end" on Excel Spreadsheets? - My
> understanding is that this is done a fair bit with VB and Excel in some Info
> Sys courses.

It appears that RB can do the whole 'OLE container' routine, so the
answer is 'probably'. 

I would presume you could use the VBA scripting language in Excel to do
much of the back-end work, rather than need to rely on VB/RB for that.

Cheers,
 
Con Zymaris, Convenor
Open Source Victoria
http://www.osv.org.au/
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