There is a send-message-to-window function (
http://docs.racket-lang.org/gui/Windowing_Functions.html#%28def._%28%28lib._mred%2Fmain..rkt%29._send-message-to-window%29%29),
though I've never used it, and it sounds like it is different from what you
describe.

-Philip


On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 5:22 PM Alex Harsanyi <alexharsa...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> I think `queue-callback` is the closest "general" equivalent: it allows
> invoking methods on GUI objects from outside the event handler thread.  It
> can also be used to schedule some work to be done outside a GUI widget's
> callback invocation.
>
> If you actually want to post specific messages to a window, you will have
> to map "PostMessage" via FFI and you can find the target window handle
> using `get-client-handle`. This will only work on the windows platform.
>
>
> https://docs.racket-lang.org/gui/Windowing_Functions.html?q=ququq-callback#%28def._%28%28lib._mred%2Fmain..rkt%29._queue-callback%29%29
>
> Alex.
>
> On Monday, November 19, 2018 at 7:42:12 PM UTC+8, Jason Stewart wrote:
>>
>> In Windows, we have a SendMessage() function for dispatching a window
>> event synchronously, and PostMessage() for asynchronously queuing an event
>> to a specified window from any thread.
>>
>> Is there a way to do PostMessage() from Racket's GUI library?
>>
>> Eventspaces feels warm, but couldn't find what I was looking for in it:
>>
>>
>> https://docs.racket-lang.org/gui/windowing-overview.html?q=sleep#%28part._eventspaceinfo%29
>>
>>
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