REALbasic Buzzord Machine by Erick Tejkowsi 10-18-01 Printer Version

Ever feel like your bosses are making things up as they go along? Well, they probably are! Today's project is a simple one, but it evens the score. Now you can produce all sorts of buzzword-filled phrases and impress that boss with your knowledge. Only you will know that its complete nonsense!

Build the Interface

Launch REALbasic and open Window1. Add a PushButton and a Listbox to the interface, making certain to give the Listbox 3 columns. You can arrange the interface however you wish, but it might look something like this:

There, that was easy, wasn't it?

Add the Code

Double click Window1 and place the following code in the window's Open event.

This code opens a text file named resexbuzzwords and reads in all of its data. The data is a list of jargon arranged in groups of three words. Each word is separated by a comma. As the data is read from the file it is placed within a particular column in the Listbox.

Next, navigate to the Action event of PushButton1 and enter this code:

This code creates a random three digit number between 000 and 999. Each digit represents a row from the Listbox. Using these random row numbers, we pull out the data from the Listbox to finally form the random buzzword phrase.

Conclusion

If you'd like to download this week's example instead of typing it in, you can get it here. See you next week!