Quick Tips

  This section is designed to give you super-quick insights as to how to improve the way you use RB. Unlike the Tips section, these tips are super-short, and don't come with lots of screenshots and a tutorial.

1

  If you want your program to open a type of file when it's double clicked, be sure to check the "document icon" box in the File Types dialog for that particular file type.

2

  In the reference, if you know what you're looking for, immediately click the Alpha button. You might even want to give it a keyboard shortcut using a macro utility (Cmd-Opt-A perhaps?)

3

  Whenever you're writing a program, and are doing a lot of editing, remember that RB has an infinite undo buffer. You can undo as many steps as you want, and the redo them again if you feel that its neccesary.

4

  If you plan on distributing a built application, give it a large amount of RAM in the "Build Application…" dialog. Then, launch the compiled program, quit it, decrease the prefered memory size, run it again, and so on. Do this until you get a crash. That's how much RAM the app needs.

5

  If RB seems to be giving you the wrong answers to math problems (ie, 50000*20000=-5894), then try adding ".0" to all the numbers involved. 50000.0*20000.0 will give you the right answer.