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Advanced Features / Using Plugins
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REAL Studio makes it easy to update it's capabilities with its plugin architecture. Let's take a look at the task edit window. Right now our due date field is a simple text field, the user can type anything, but if the date is not in the right format, it won't get entered into the task. Let's use a plugin that adds a real date control to REAL Studio. The plugin we're going to use is called Date Control by Einhuger. Einhuger makes a wide variety of user interface control plugins for REAL Studio. The entire set sells for about 200 dollars. Head on over to Einhuger dot com and download the date control plugin. This will give you a date control dot RBX file. You need to put this file in the plugins folder within your REAL Studio application folder, then restart REAL Studio. Once you're in REAL Studio, you can go back to the task edit window and select the drop down on the left so you only see the plugin controls. Here you will see a new control Date Control. This is the control provided by the Date Control plugin. We can just drag this to the window just like we can with any other control. We will check the box to allow dates to be empty and we'll remove the due date field, putting our date control in its place. Now we have to edit the code to use our new date control in place of the field. We'll look at the setter for the edit task property. Here is where we were currently setting the due date field. You can press Tab to see all the properties that are available for the due date control. We would like the date value property. This code is no longer needed. We also need to change the update task method. This code is no longer needed. Now let's run our project. You'll now see the due date field. We can check the box and change the date using the controls. And the date appears. Plugins are a great way to add new features to REAL Studio and can be a great time saver.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Real Studio |
| Author: | Paul Lefebvre |
| SKU: | 34190 |
| ISBN: | 1-936334-77-1 |
| Release Date: | 2011-02-02 |
| Duration: | 7 hrs / 87 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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