Re: [racket-users] advice for writing desktop app

2015-04-05 Thread Giuseppe Luca Scrofani
> > I left that out of the file so that it wouldn’t try to make a window > appear if I just run raco test on everything or something like that, or if > in the future I use Travis CI or something. But when I run the file in > DrRacket, I type in (send frame show #t) to check it. But even without >

Re: [racket-users] advice for writing desktop app

2015-04-05 Thread Alexander D. Knauth
On Apr 5, 2015, at 5:22 AM, Lux wrote: >> Here it is, although some of the things I did like creating objects on a >> dummy panel and then reparenting them seem like they could be bad ideas. >> https://github.com/AlexKnauth/racket-gui-table > > Thanks, I've searched something like this for sev

Re: [racket-users] advice for writing desktop app

2015-04-05 Thread Gour
Jens Axel Søgaard writes: > Tree? > > Do you mean this? > > http://docs.racket-lang.org/mrlib/Hierarchical_List_Control.html?q=button%25 Hmm, there is no screenshot, but it could be that's it. Thank you! Sincerely, Gour -- When your intelligence has passed out of the dense forest of delusi

Re: [racket-users] advice for writing desktop app

2015-04-05 Thread Lux
> Here it is, although some of the things I did like creating objects on a > dummy panel and then reparenting them seem like they could be bad ideas. > https://github.com/AlexKnauth/racket-gui-table Thanks, I've searched something like this for several days, starred. Maybe would be a good idea a

Re: [racket-users] advice for writing desktop app

2015-04-04 Thread Jens Axel Søgaard
Tree? Do you mean this? http://docs.racket-lang.org/mrlib/Hierarchical_List_Control.html?q=button%25 /Jens Axel 2015-04-04 10:30 GMT+02:00 Gour : > > Alexander D. Knauth writes: > >> Here it is, although some of the things I did like creating objects on a >> dummy panel and then reparenting t

Re: [racket-users] advice for writing desktop app

2015-04-04 Thread Gour
Alexander D. Knauth writes: > Here it is, although some of the things I did like creating objects on a > dummy panel and then reparenting them seem like they could be bad ideas. > https://github.com/AlexKnauth/racket-gui-table Thank you. I did star it. What about trees? You don't have need for

Re: [racket-users] advice for writing desktop app

2015-04-04 Thread Gour
Alexander D. Knauth writes: > For tables, I wrote my own version of some kind of table for racket’s gui > so that I could use it in a gui latin dictionary I was making. Thanks. Looks good. Sincerely, Gour -- One is understood to be in full knowledge whose every endeavor is devoid of desire

Re: [racket-users] advice for writing desktop app

2015-04-04 Thread Gour
Vincent St-Amour writes: > I have written GUI applications in Racket, .NET, Swing and tk, and > Racket is the most pleasant by far, IMO. I'm glad to hear it. Racket, as language, really looks beautiful - simple syntax and powerful expressibility, afaict. Do you find Racket's GUI sufficient for

Re: [racket-users] advice for writing desktop app

2015-04-03 Thread Vincent St-Amour
At Fri, 03 Apr 2015 10:40:18 +0200, Gour wrote: > So, it looks, (almost) everything is there present in Racket, so I wonder > whether you consider that writing desktop GUI app is suitable niche for > Racket making one productive and still getting decent performance? I have written GUI applications

Re: [racket-users] advice for writing desktop app

2015-04-03 Thread Alexander D. Knauth
On Apr 3, 2015, at 8:56 AM, Alexander D. Knauth wrote: > > On Apr 3, 2015, at 4:40 AM, Gour wrote: > >> I've found the following: >> >> "Sadly, RacketGUI lacks some advanced controls I often want: >> >> trees >> tables containing controls in cells >> However the list-box% control

Re: [racket-users] advice for writing desktop app

2015-04-03 Thread Alexander D. Knauth
On Apr 3, 2015, at 4:40 AM, Gour wrote: > I've found the following: > > "Sadly, RacketGUI lacks some advanced controls I often want: > >trees >tables containing controls in cells >However the list-box% control supports cells that only contain text. >tree-tables > “ For tab

[racket-users] advice for writing desktop app

2015-04-03 Thread Gour
Hello, my 1st post here...by 'accident' I stumbled upon Floss Weekly episode about Racket, liked it, visited web sites, read few posts (Why Lisp? Why Racket? is *very* inspirational), watched some RacketCon videos, skimmed over mailing list archive...and now have a question. For some time I am co