Is the reference manual for Real Studio 2010 still available online or for downloading? I have a huge legacy project that needs modifying and converting it to Xojo would be too onerous and time-consuming to be worthwhile. I’ve searched the Xojo Web site to no avail and the Xojo documentation is no help for stuff long since deprecated/discarded.
You may download the application from Xojo download web site and take the pdf from there…
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What a great manual that is - extremely detailed unlike today’s documentation.
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This is/was also wonderful.
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The manuals are in the Resources folder where Real Studio is installed.
Thank you all for the suggestions. But the resources link in Real Studio isn’t to a PDF file - it links to the Xojo Reference Manual - and Julia’s link is to the Real Studio User’s Guide, not the Reference Manual. However, I found what I needed in an ancient project I’d almost forgotten about, so problem solved! It’s a shame that Xojo doesn’t keep its old manuals online, though.
You are wrong, pal, in the Documentation folder of Real Studio 2010r1, you have:
LanguageReference.pdf
REAL Studio Quick Start.pdf
REAL Studio Tutorial.pdf
REAL Studio User’s Guide.pdf
I downloaded the dmg file and open it right now.
Well, in the version I have, Real Studio 2010 Release 4, the Resources folder contains:
REALStudioWDB
Style.css
TopicList.txt
Needless to say, Windows can’t open WDB files. I need to download and install a separate program to open them. In the Help menu there’s an item called “Language Reference” which leads to the Xojo documentation.
As I said earlier, I’ve solved the problem anyway.
Yes, but for readers in the future…
Don’t you look at what’s in the Documentation folder ?
The file “REALStudioWDB” is the data that are displayed in the IDE Language Reference. To read it, you need to fire the Real Studio IDE application. That file is useless without the Real Studio IDE application.
There is no Documentation folder in this version. And as I mentioned, the Reference Manual menu option in the IDE links to the current Xojo documentation.
I spoke too soon! After digging around in the Options menu in the IDE, I found the option to use online or local documentation. The default setting was online, which is why I was getting Xojo documentation instead of that for Real Studio. Changing this to Local does indeed open the local Real Studio reference manual.