REALbasic to suport Cocoa

REAL Software today announced that will support Cocoa, Apple's framework for Mac OS X software development as well as add support for Intel-based Macs. The company said it is building a new REALbasic platform layer based on Apple's Cocoa framework and that major third-party REALbasic plug-in developers plan to support the new REALbasic Cocoa framework as well. Concurrent with Cocoa support, REAL Software will also deliver support for Universal Binaries, Apple's technology that enables a single application to run natively on both Intel and PowerPC architectures. "Adding Cocoa support to REALbasic clearly affirms our commitment to the Mac," stated Geoff Perlman, president and CEO of REAL Software. "Cocoa support will enable us to incorporate great new technologies from Apple more quickly and more easily than ever before, and will result in better, more feature-rich software for Mac OS X."

"REALbasic is our preferred development environment because it really
improves our productivity," stated Bryan Lund, principal developer at
independent software vendor Radical Breeze. "However, we recently had to
use a different development tool that provided Cocoa support. When
REALbasic supports Cocoa, we will definitely be using REALbasic exclusively
once again, and we're looking forward to the speed and ease of development
we'll gain by using REALbasic."

Support for Cocoa and Universal Binaries will ship later this year and will
be delivered via the REALbasic Rapid Release model. Any customer with a
current update plan at the time of release will have access to these new
features at no additional cost.

by MacNN Staff