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MBS Plugin Documentation

This is the documentation for the Realbasic Plugins from Monkeybreadsoftware.de. You find these plugins and the newest version of this document at http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/realbasic inside the plugins section.

This help was last updated on Freitag, 6. September 2002 and covers 2136 items: 126 classes, 2 controls and 583 global functions.

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class SharedObject
class, SharedObject So, 28. Apr 2002
Mac OS Classic: Does nothing. Mac OS Carbon: Does nothing. Windows: Works.
Function: Allows you to Share Memory between applications.
Notes: Mostly used to see if another instance of your app is running.

Content as Memoryblock
method, SharedObject So, 28. Apr 2002
Mac OS Classic: Works. Mac OS Carbon: Works. Windows: Works.
Function: Gives you a memoryblock for the SharedObject's content if you have successfully created a shared object.
Example: m=f.content

Create(name as string,size as integer) as boolean
method, SharedObject So, 28. Apr 2002
Mac OS Classic: Allways returns false. Mac OS Carbon: Allways returns false. Windows: Works.
Function: Creates a shared object with the given name and size.
Notes: Name is required. size can be aligned to the memory page size which is most times 4096 bytes.

Open(name as string) as boolean
method, SharedObject So, 28. Apr 2002
Mac OS Classic: Allways returns false. Mac OS Carbon: Allways returns false. Windows: Works.
Function: Opens a shared object with the given name.
Notes: Name is required.

Size as integer
property, SharedObject So, 28. Apr 2002
Mac OS Classic: Is allways 0. Mac OS Carbon: Is allways 0. Windows: Works.
Function: Returns the size of the shared object.
Example: msgbox "I'm "+str(f.size)+" bytes big."
Notes: If you created the object using Open this size is allways 0.

Contact

Written 2002 by Christian Schmitz. Feel free to ask or report mistakes to realbasic@macsw.de.
Thanks.

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