If you are interested in non-teaching and something LIKE 2htdp/world, then I suggest my package, lux. It uses generics (rather than classes for OO) and exposes a lot more options in the gui. (It doesn't expose starting position, but it would be appropriate to add them to lux/chaos/gui's make-gui.)
http://docs.racket-lang.org/lux/index.html On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 9:44 AM, Matthias Felleisen <[email protected]> wrote: > > :-) > > That’s not what I meant. I think that I need to figure out > how to produce two version of ‘universe’ for the non-teaching > world w/o completely forking the repo: > > — a functional one > — an object-oriented one > > From what I can tell, 2htdp/universe + image has some appeal as > as simple GUI framework for simple tasks and I should accommodate > this (which will also reduce the overhead). > > ;; - - - > > But, if it is about managing concurrency in GUIs, you might be > interested in Syndicate, which is where research and input > from Tony Garnock-Jones has taken this idea: > > http://syndicate-lang.org > > — Matthias > > > > > > >> On Aug 25, 2017, at 8:46 AM, Laurent <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> It's about non-teaching, which I suspect will not be in my favour :) >> >> On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 1:31 PM, Matthias Felleisen <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> On Aug 25, 2017, at 7:43 AM, Laurent <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> 2htdp is really neat and very useful, so thank you designers and >>> programmers of 2htdp! >>> >>> Sometimes I wish to place the window/frame on the screen at a particular >>> position, but the default sets it to (2, 2) as defined here: >>> >>> https://github.com/racket/htdp/blob/master/htdp-lib/2htdp/private/world.rkt#L216 >>> >>> I'd like the user to be able to specify these values, but I'm not confident >>> about doing changes in there as there seem to be several layers in between >>> big-bang and world%, and a particular DSL. >>> >>> I suppose a clause must be added around here: >>> https://github.com/racket/htdp/blob/master/htdp-lib/2htdp/universe.rkt#L139 >>> though I'm not sure what the format for a pair of numbers would be, or if >>> it would be better in on-draw instead (or if parameters wouldn't be better >>> for this, but 2htdp doesn't seem to use many parameters). >>> >>> Any advice? >> >> >> Is this about teaching or about non-teaching uses of 2htdp? — Matthias >> >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -=[ Jay McCarthy http://jeapostrophe.github.io ]=- -=[ Associate Professor PLT @ CS @ UMass Lowell ]=- -=[ Moses 1:33: And worlds without number have I created; ]=- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
