Ok, so here's a historical trick which some of you may find handy every once in a while. In 5.5 and before, it was impossible on Windows to open up a second instance of the IDE. But this was frustrating since there were times when you'd want multiple projects open at the same time. However, this limitation was installed for a reason -- the IDE wasn't multi-project safe by any stretch of the imagination, and you could horribly corrupt things (including your code) if you had multiple instances of the IDE open.
That being said, there may be times when you just want two instances open for compare and constrast reasons. So long as you are very careful, this trick may come in handy.
From the Start menu, hold down Ctrl+Alt when clicking on the 5.5 IDE and you can get a second instance to open.
Now, fast forward to current installments of REALbasic where you have multiple project support. Now there's no longer a need for multiple instances of the IDE to be running since you can view multiple projects at the same time. So you get the benefit of multiple projects, but without the overhead of two (or more) entire instances of the IDE being resident in memory at once. Yay for progress!
(crickets chirping)
I guess I must be the only one still running 5.5 around here. :)
Eric in Seattle
LoL, hopefully. ;-)
No, I'm still running 5.5(.5) in Kirkland, WA. RB2006r3 comes within one freakin' bug of being up to compiling my monster app.
Which bug is that?
Lots of 5.5.5 users still.
Last time I ran a quick survery about 35% of all respondents were still using 5.5.5 for their projects. No idea if anyone has repeated such a survey.
And we do still see a lot of folks posting about it and questions about using it.
I still have it for projects that have not moved up to 2005/2006 for various reasons (budgets to do the work, bugs - obbfaqmi, etc)
With 2006r3, RB is finally at the point where I would be willing to switch from 5.5.5 to 2006. I would love to do that, and there are a few additional niceties I could include in my program if I did - BUT - nothing essential enough to justify a near-doubling of the executable size. I would file a request to do something about that, but so many people have already done that in the past - why should I bother? Sorry - I don't mean to sound like I'm just complaining - I really like RB - but I REALLY wish we could have much smaller executables.
I have one app still using RB4.5 ;-(
It uses XCMDs!
...man is RB4.5 fast to use and debug!