[racket-users] Racket-openCV package use?7

2019-01-12 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Hi Can can anyone point me to any package or other Racket code that uses the Racket OpenCV package ? https://github.com/oetr/racket-opencv Kind regards, Stephen -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from t

[racket-users] FYI Racket & DrRacket tagged projects on GitHub

2019-01-11 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
FYI Racket & DrRacket tagged projects on GitHub can be found at https://github.com/topics/racket https://github.com/topics/drracket A great way to discover Racket activity that you wouldn’t otherwise see. Kind regards Stephen -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: [racket-users] FOSDEM: Flyers, posters, and overall Racket visuals/communication material

2019-01-11 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
How about a poster of the examples from the home page? On Wed, 9 Jan 2019 at 08:11, Jérôme Martin wrote: > Hello Racketeers! > > I'm going to FOSDEM in February, giving some talks and workshops about > Racket in the "Minimalistic Languages Room". > https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/minimali

Re: [racket-users] triggering servlet on GET parameters

2019-01-06 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
ore. >>>> Then, you need to intercept ALL requests with your servlet. Then, your >>>> servlet just needs to call (next-dispatcher) and the static file >>>> handler will kick in, because it comes after servlets. >>>> >>>> Jay >>>> >&g

[racket-users] triggering servlet on GET parameters

2019-01-02 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Hi, I'm fooling around with #lang web-server/insta, and I can serve .html files by setting (static-files-path page-root), but I'd like to trigger my servlet if there is a '?action=edit' parameter set. e.g https://localhost/start.html just serves the file (I can do this!) https://localhost/start.h

Re: [racket-users] hackernews

2018-12-27 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
I always wanted to ask if the prototype object model is a good idea or bad idea? The same question applies to Morphic User Interface Construction Environment - good idea or bad idea? Given neither idea seems to have caught on I’m assuming both are dead ends? Kind regards, Stephen > On 27 Dec

Re: [racket-users] hackernews

2018-12-26 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Hi Matthew, Neil, > the people who are persuadable. So who are the ‘persuadable’? And where to find them if not on hn? I’m one of the ‘corporate MIS programmers’, but in the public sector(health), and I get to interact with a variety of software vendors as well as and build forms, worklists, repo

Re: [racket-users] hackernews

2018-12-26 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Maybe a high profile social media patron - I’m sure JA is doing wonders for TiddlyWiki: https://twitter.com/joeerl/status/1077842077705293824?s=21 How did other languages grow their audience? e.g. Ruby-on-Rails, Perl, Python, PHP, C++, Rust ? (All fine languages with many strengths - but there ar

Re: [racket-users] project idea: drracket notebook mode

2018-12-26 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Like Maxima? DrRacket interactions already does most of what Jupyter and Maxima does, but lacks the functionality of cells, and the ability to re-evaluate them. Would this replace ‘interactions’, or would it be a new editor<%>? It’s a great idea - it seems a little like ‘code bubbles’, but for

[racket-users] Re: Why enter/run a submodule in the REPL?

2018-12-13 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Hi, I suppose a better question is what do any racketeers use ‘submodules to run’ in DrRacket? And if so- what for? Stephen On Wed, 12 Dec 2018 at 00:21, Stephen De Gabrielle wrote: > Hi, > > #lang racket > (displayln "This is the main module") > (module+ drra

[racket-users] Why enter/run a submodule in the REPL?

2018-12-11 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Hi, #lang racket (displayln "This is the main module") (module+ drracket (define foo 'FOO) (displayln "This is the drracket submodule")) Execute and DrRacket displays "This is the main module" in the interactions window type (require (only-in racket/enter dynamic-enter!) (only-in syntax/loc

Re: [racket-users] Licence guidance

2018-09-24 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Thank you all. Sounds like a case-by-case approach is probably best. I did find the github licence advice pages. It seems that not choosing a licence is probably a bad choice when publishing a racket package: https://choosealicense.com/no-permission/ I can't believe I missed the Racket licence p

[racket-users] Licence guidance

2018-09-24 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Hi, I sometimes see Racket packages on PLaneT or Github, but lack a licence. I don’t feel I can redistribute or fork abandoned code if it lacks a licence. (I can give an example of an 11yo abandoned project that I’d love to fork but can’t because it lacks a licence) With that in mind- what licen

[racket-users] Racket-[con|summer school] and podcasts

2018-04-27 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Hi There are a number of podcasts that do conference announcements - is it worth sending details of the racket-con/summer-school to ‘cognicast’, ‘functional geekery’ and any others? https://con.racket-lang.org https://summer-school.racket-lang.org/2018/ cont...@functionalgeekery.com As I can’t ju

[racket-users] deprecating a package (and redirecting users to new version)

2018-04-12 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Hi, What is the best way to deprecate a package on pkgs.racket-lang.org ? Is there a way to redirect users to a new package (with a different name)? Kind regards, Stephen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from th

Re: [racket-users] Splitting up a GUI source file?

2018-03-23 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
May be relevant https://pkgs.racket-lang.org/package/spreadsheet-editor s. On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 5:09 PM, James Platt wrote: > > > I am trying to create a GUI program, my problem is that the source code > for the > > GUI portion is growing out of control and I don't know how to split it > up

[racket-users] nightly build version is 6.90.0.20 ?

2018-03-12 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Hi, Am I going mad or has the version number on the nightly build gone back from 6.12 to 6.90.0.20? (or is that a massive jump forwards?) Kind regards, Stephen -- Process: DrRacket [1813] Path: /private/var/folders/*/DrRacket.app/Contents/MacOS/DrRacket Identifier:

Re: [racket-users] Re: OSX racket install problem - "sudo racket" works, but running as a user fails...

2018-01-21 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Hi Scott, Did you identify the issue? Were you able to resolve ti? Kind regards, Stephen On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 9:40 PM, Scott Watson wrote: > Also, I've tried both: > > brew cask install racket > and > brew install racket > > > On Thursday, January 18, 2018 at 1:38:54 PM UTC-8, Scott Wats

Re: [racket-users] Blockly-Like Interface in DrRacket

2017-12-30 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Hi Stephen, I'm assuming you meant something like Snap (http://snap.berkeley.edu) in Dr Racket? Snips are powerful; they can inserted in text and pasteboard editors; they can be dynamic(e.g. plot), and they can contain other editors(text or pasteboard). The only possibly related prior work I’m a

Re: [racket-users] Retrieving some data from a module without evaluating it

2017-12-17 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Is this what you are after? https://github.com/racket/racket/blob/master/racket/collects/racket/private/submodule.rkt /Applications/Racket v6.11/collects/racket/private/submodule.rkt Stephen On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 10:36 AM, Laurent wrote: > Also, I can't find where module+ is defined. Anyo

Re: [racket-users] Re: stumped

2017-12-13 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Thanks Alex, Much appreciated! Stephen On Thu, 14 Dec 2017 at 04:50, Alex Harsanyi wrote: > I built a similar control, although it does not represent directory paths, > just labels which are stacked vertically. I ended up defining a structure > to hold the text and width + height of each label an

[racket-users] stumped

2017-12-13 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Hi, I'm working on a 'directory' like you would find in VScode, xcode, or clion* https://github.com/spdegabrielle/dir-control/blob/master/dir-control.rkt I's pretty enough, but 'm not sure how to best to store the values against the respective parts of the control, so they can be passed via a cal

Re: [racket-users] DrRackGit & LibGit2

2017-12-08 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
ract violation expected: 0 received: "7: no config file exists for the given level '1'" 45 success(es) 1 failure(s) 1 error(s) 47 test(s) run 2 > On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 10:57 PM, John Clements wrote: > > > > On Dec 7, 2017, at 2:34 PM, St

Re: [racket-users] DrRackGit & LibGit2

2017-12-07 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
I should be clear, I ran the libgit2 tests by hard coding the location of the library and running them manually. I don’t really know what I’m doing so that was the best I could muddle through. S. On Thu, 7 Dec 2017 at 22:28, Stephen De Gabrielle wrote: > Only on macOS, but most tests pas

Re: [racket-users] DrRackGit & LibGit2

2017-12-07 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
17, at 10:27 AM, Stephen De Gabrielle < > spdegabrie...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > https://pkgs.racket-lang.org/package/Drrackgit > > https://github.com/bbusching/drrackgit > > https://pkgs.racket-lang.org/package/libgit2 > > https://gith

[racket-users] DrRackGit & LibGit2

2017-12-07 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Hi, https://pkgs.racket-lang.org/package/Drrackgit https://github.com/bbusching/drrackgit https://pkgs.racket-lang.org/package/libgit2 https://github.com/bbusching/libgit2 https://libgit2.github.com/ I was very excited when I found the DrRackGit tool in the Racket packages, but saddened to find it

[racket-users] Divascheme, Paredit and Parinfer

2017-11-30 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Hi I recently asked about DrRacket and a number of users remarked that they missed the features like those in Paredit in Emacs and Parinfer in Atom. This reminded me of the DivaScheme plugin where ‘commands operate on sexps by default’. It is still on PLaneT but lacks a licence declaration. It

[racket-users] Re: Alternatives to DrRacket

2017-11-27 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
I don’t want to stop the responses, but I do want to say thank you to all of you. You have given me a lot to think about. Kind regards, Stephen -- Kind regards, Stephen -- Ealing (London), UK -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. T

[racket-users] Alternatives to DrRacket

2017-11-26 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Hi, I’ve noticed some list members use other editors or IDE’s. I know two big reasons for using a complex tool is it’s stickiness factors; normally a combination of familiarity (hence speed) with a lot of powerful features and non-transportable customisation. Putting stickiness factors aside, wh

[racket-users] Diff tool

2017-11-23 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Does DrRacket have an integrated diff tool? Kind regards Stephen -- Kind regards, Stephen -- Ealing (London), UK -- 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

Re: [racket-users] DrRacket (6.11) issue on Windows 10

2017-11-13 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
I don't know if this is what the student is experiencing, but sometimes windows places a window off screen and it persists in keeping it there. Changing the screen resolution (temporarily) may cause windows to reposition the application back on screen, using the windows 'window manager' 'move' fun

[racket-users] using threads in gui

2017-11-06 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Hi, I'm tooling around with a current-user-directory and hierarchical-list% in #lang racket/gui and it seems to be working adding folders works ok, but when I delete a group of folders I get the following error; hierarchical-list-compound-item::delete-item: item not found: #(struct:object:hierarc

Re: [racket-users] Open source projects

2017-10-31 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
I've added the sha256 suggestion to https://github.com/racket/racket/wiki/Intro-Projects s. On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 3:50 PM, David Storrs wrote: > One other relatively easy project would be to add sha256 to the > openssl library. https://docs.racket-lang.org/openssl/index.html > > There is a v

Re: [racket-users] New wiki page ‘friends of Racket’

2017-10-31 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Thank you! On Tue, 31 Oct 2017 at 20:52, Dmitry Pavlov wrote: > > I have added some Racket-related information about the Institute of > Applied Astronomy I work in. > > Stephen or Racket-devs: feel free to edit it if needed. > > > Regards, > > Dmitry > &g

Re: [racket-users] Open source projects

2017-10-31 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Double apologies Hendrik - I didn’t notice when my phone incorrectly ‘corrected’ your name. Kind regards Stephen On Tue, 31 Oct 2017 at 20:29, Stephen De Gabrielle wrote: > Hi Hendrix, > > I hope you don’t mind, but I was so moved by your eloquent plea I quoted > it (without att

Re: [racket-users] Open source projects

2017-10-31 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Hi Hendrix, I hope you don’t mind, but I was so moved by your eloquent plea I quoted it (without attribution) on the page https://github.com/racket/racket/wiki/Contributing-to-Racket Kind regards Stephen PS the github wiki is really easy to use - anyone could contribute - I did it on my phone w

Re: [racket-users] Open source projects

2017-10-31 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Add it to the wiki? https://github.com/racket/racket/wiki On Tue, 31 Oct 2017 at 15:50, David Storrs wrote: > One other relatively easy project would be to add sha256 to the > openssl library. https://docs.racket-lang.org/openssl/index.html > > There is a version of sha256 implemented in > h

Re: [racket-users] New wiki page ‘friends of Racket’

2017-10-30 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
it was nice to see Alex and Philip contribute too! Stephen On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 4:20 PM, Vincent St-Amour < stamo...@eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote: > Thanks Stephen for giving our wiki some much-needed love! > > Vincent > > > On Sat, 28 Oct 2017 04:56:37 -0500, >

Re: [racket-users] DrR compilation progress bar

2017-10-29 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
What about a simple timer and an indicator of compilation time compared to the previous compilation? The reasoning is that for a small project compilation time is short so it doesn’t matter that it will be wildly inaccurate, but for longer projects where compilation time is long, the number of chan

[racket-users] New wiki page ‘friends of Racket’

2017-10-28 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
I created a new wiki page https://github.com/racket/racket/wiki/Friends-of-Racket (yes, I got the idea from rust-lang) I did it because it is a question that keeps turning up. Racket-devs: If it is not appropriate for the wiki please delete it. Kind regards, Stephen — Organizations using Rack

Re: [racket-users] Community or Junior Colleges using Racket for Introductory or Other Courses

2017-10-27 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
There is the wiki page but I don’t know if any of the places listed meet your criteria: https://github.com/racket/racket/wiki/Courses-using-Racket Kind Regards Stephen On Thu, 26 Oct 2017 at 18:40, ben.rudgers wrote: > My child is a High School junior and has some interest (and some healthy >

Re: [racket-users] Open source projects

2017-10-24 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
I think the ‘doable exercise for a budding Racket programmer‘ was scoped to be an achievable, but important piece that someone else could use to make a DrRacket plugin.(or more likely change DrRacket core) Kind regards, Stephen On Tue, 24 Oct 2017 at 00:52, Guthrie Price wrote: > Thank you all

Re: [racket-users] Define/override for mouse event?

2017-10-22 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
They way I look at it is the Racket/gui libraries are already calling the ‘on-event’ method, you have to override their calls so your code can pass mouse events to your code. I suppose the trade-off is your code should work on windows, Linux and macOS with no change. Kind regards, Stephen On Sat

Re: [racket-users] Can anyone help me with a change?

2017-10-22 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
I don’t think packages on PLaneT can be updated but I may be wrong. I have moved things from PLaneT to the Racket Package system, and it isn’t very hard, certainly wasn’t time consuming (an evening). 1. Make a new github repo 2. add the old code, 3. Run it to see what breaks 4. Fix it - I don’t m

Re: [racket-users] European Racketeers and conferences

2017-10-22 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Hi, I’ve taken it upon myself to add the map link to the github wiki homepage https://github.com/racket/racket/wiki - with the hope that it will help provide a way for Racketeers to meetup. The wiki incidentally includes some advice on starting a local meetup https://github.com/racket/racket/wiki

Re: [racket-users] Open source projects

2017-10-22 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
ename that I’m looking for. >> >> Should be not-too-impossible. >> >> If I get a spare ten hours, I’d love to do it myself… >> >> Which list should I add this to? >> >> John >> >> cc: william hatch except I’m too busy to >>

Re: [racket-users] European Racketeers and conferences

2017-10-21 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
And I’m in London(Ealing), and while I can’t own a computer without installing DrRacket, sadly my day job is using ObjectScript(mumps), not Racket. (ObjectScript isn’t bad, but it’s not Racket) Stephen On Sat, 21 Oct 2017 at 12:07, Andreas Olsson wrote: > I’m a Swede and a programming hobbyist.

Re: [racket-users] Re: Open source projects

2017-10-20 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
There is also a suggested projects page on the wiki https://github.com/racket/racket/wiki/Intro-Projects I don’t know if it is still accurate. Kind regards, Stephen On Fri, 20 Oct 2017 at 06:45, Jack Firth wrote: > Welcome, we're very glad to have you! > > Open source Racket projects are sca

Re: [racket-users] European Racketeers and conferences

2017-09-04 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
I remember a few years ago every community would have a world map of where participants were based(1) - it seems to have gone out of fashion but I'd love to know where racket users are based. I'm in London, and it sounds like there might be two or three others in London plus a few in other regions

[racket-users] How to find code in the racket distro

2017-06-20 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Hi There was a recent question on the list about how to capitalise the first letter of a string. There were a number of good approaches, but I thought I would try look for the implementation of string-titlecase. I found it surprisingly difficult despite having the search for code functionality

Re: [racket-users] RacketCon Code of Conduct

2017-06-19 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
I would suggest that it is more important to get a COC on the RacketCon website than it is to argue over the wording. I would suggest that every day that passes without a CoC on the website adds to the risk that possible racketcon participants might decide not to go... to the detriment of the Racke

Re: [racket-users] RacketCon Code of Conduct

2017-06-18 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
As a middle-aged white heterosexual male I've never needed a COC. It is my understanding that clear COCs (that are enforced) are valuable in that they reduce the both the incidence and impact of discrimination and harassment. Kind regards Stephen On Sat, 17 Jun 2017 at 19:53, Matthias Felleisen

Re: [racket-users] RacketCon Code of Conduct

2017-06-16 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Awesome. (It's an opinion) On Fri, 16 Jun 2017 at 19:48, Alexis King wrote: > +1 from me. I think the Strange Loop CoC is a good one to emulate. > > > On Jun 16, 2017, at 11:44 AM, Leif Andersen > > wrote: > > > > RacketCon 2017 should have a code of conduct, as pointed out by Claire > > on twit

Re: [racket-users] Racket for Kids in 2017

2017-05-29 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
ofessionals, can provide the right guidance & support. S. On Mon, 29 May 2017 at 04:20, Neil Van Dyke wrote: > Stephen De Gabrielle wrote on 05/28/2017 09:08 AM: > > > But don't discount the potential of throwing a young child at a > > computer with > >

Re: [racket-users] Racket for Kids in 2017

2017-05-28 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
> But don't discount the potential of throwing a young child at a computer with > only non-child software on it, and let them figure out > how to do what they want, much on their own. That's how the early-1980s > home computer kids got started, and that worked out pretty well. Survivorship bias? I

Re: [racket-users] Racket 6.9

2017-04-29 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Wow. Background expansion really kills old hardware. Luckily I can turn it off and use check syntax! S. On Sat, 29 Apr 2017 at 20:32, Stephen De Gabrielle wrote: > I just realised I have a Windows 7 (32bit) toshiba nb 200. > DrRacket (32bit) launched with no problems. > > Check t

Re: [racket-users] scale of image of scribble with .jpg

2017-04-29 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Scaling will always make the image less sharp, but you are right - scale works with GIF images but not jpg. I have not checked the documentation. S. On Sat, 29 Apr 2017 at 19:06, Jos Koot wrote: > Hi, > > I have the following: > > #lang scribble/manual > ... > @(image #:scale 2 "Turing-machi

Re: [racket-users] Racket 6.9

2017-04-29 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
I just realised I have a Windows 7 (32bit) toshiba nb 200. DrRacket (32bit) launched with no problems. Check the operating system type(32-bit/x86 or 64-bit x64) is the same as the DrR download type. Kind regards Stephen On Sat, 29 Apr 2017 at 20:18, Stephen De Gabrielle wrote: > Ubuntu Li

Re: [racket-users] Racket 6.9

2017-04-29 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Ubuntu Linux is cheap, includes an alternative to ms word, gets regular updates and (most importantly) runs racket fine. https://launchpad.net/~plt/+archive/ubuntu/racket Kind regards Stephen On Sat, 29 Apr 2017 at 20:05, Jos Koot wrote: > Hi > I have downloaded 6.9, but was warned that the fi

Re: [racket-users] Re: inspecting a table error 'error 'query: multiple statements given'

2017-04-19 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Thanks! On Mon, 17 Apr 2017 at 16:42, Alexander McLin wrote: > The error message is unclear but I believe SQLite do not support > parameters for PRAGMA statements. > > The SQLite documentation at http://www.sqlite.org/lang_expr.html#varparam > specifically says parameters are supported by express

[racket-users] inspecting a table error 'error 'query: multiple statements given'

2017-04-14 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Hi, Having a little trouble with the db library. In the following test the first '(query db "PRAGMA' works, but the second fails with the error 'query: multiple statements given given: "PRAGMA table_info($1)"' Any ideas about what I'm doing wrong? Not including the single quotes in the PRAGMA

Re: [racket-users] refactoring help/tools?

2017-03-13 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Sorry - I meant to reply all. My questions weren't directed at anyone specific. S. On Mon, 13 Mar 2017 at 21:24, Stephen De Gabrielle wrote: > Do you mean a drracket plugin that > i. Expands #lang racket into racket/base and requires, > ii. removes the unneeded requires > &g

[racket-users] Is there any way I can use the terse forms of quasiquote with at-exp?

2017-03-11 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Hi, Is there any way I can use the terse forms of quasiquote with at-exp? I want to use @expressions{} inside a quasi quoted list, but the unquote comma captures the at-sign at ,@a~{} I'm trying to achieve the following with the at-exp ;working example #lang at-exp racket (require racket/random

Re: [racket-users] Programming paradigms supported by Racket (according to wikipedia)

2017-02-16 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
I've edited both the paradigms and comparison pages to emphasise and add criticisms citing the paper. While I don't consider Wikipedia either a safe or reliable source for study, it is nevertheless used widely. I would suggest in this context it is a marketing tool - just take a look at the la

Re: [racket-users] Client side web applications in Racket

2017-01-27 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Thank you all! I'm still getting my head around how modern (client side)web applications are developed and work on the users browser - the last web application I worked on was perl and fast-cgi. My understanding of modern web apps is a) you are served a base (x?)HTML(5?) page and JavaScript by th

Re: [racket-users] Client side web applications in Racket

2017-01-22 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
r.rkt > > > Whalesong implements full Racket with tco and correct error reporting. > The Whalesong compiler only runs on old versions of Racket and Danny > stopped worked on it years ago. > > /Jens Axel > > > > 2017-01-22 14:13 GMT+01:00 Stephen De Gabrielle : >

[racket-users] Client side web applications in Racket

2017-01-22 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Hi, What are my options for doing client side web applications in Racket ? I've been getting my head around server side - I can auth a user and set a cookie - but I'm not sure what my options for client side web apps: - Should I be using Whalesong and/or Urlang? - Is there a right/wrong [WhaleSo

Re: [racket-users] What is the difference between the window snapshot builds?

2017-01-13 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
e MSVC on Windows. > > > > But that difference is not supposed to be visible, since the end result > > should be the same. Are you seeing a difference between the builds? > > > > At Fri, 13 Jan 2017 09:24:48 +, Stephen De Gabrielle wrote: > > > Hi, > &

[racket-users] What is the difference between the window snapshot builds?

2017-01-13 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Hi, What is the difference between the windows snapshot builds from Utah and northwestern? Kind regards, Stephen -- Kind regards, Stephen -- Bigger than Scheme, cooler than Clojure & more fun than CL.(n=1) -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Rack

Re: [racket-users] hello, where can I find the distribution 6.7.0.3.

2017-01-04 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
there is an 'other available snapshots' at the bottom of the snapshots screen e.g. https://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/snapshots/20161228-f039a4c/index.html they have dates but I don't know what snapshot version numbers they correspond to. HTH Stephen On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 8:51 AM, WarGrey Gyoudmo

Re: [racket-users] Does anyone have a CRC-16-CCITT implementation in Racket?

2017-01-03 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Is it the CRC mentioned in this article? http://www.drdobbs.com/implementing-the-ccitt-cyclical-redundan/199904926 s. On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 3:54 PM, wrote: > Hi Racketeers, > > Does anyone have a CRC-16-CCITT implementation in Racket? I didn't see it > in the pkgs site, I thought someone mi

Re: [racket-users] New website design feedback

2017-01-02 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Great new design FWIW I noticed the following - when you select the code examples the grey is replaced with documentation style linked code - it resizes nicely to the small screen of my phone (i don't see the point as I can't use DrRacket on my iPhone...this is not a bad thing as typing code on a p

[racket-users] Errors in (Dr)Racket

2017-01-01 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Hi All, I occasionally write code with errors* that cause the DrRacket error message to link to an internal Racket file, rather than my own incorrect code. The last time I did this it was doing web server code, but I've also managed it with GUI code.(and playing with DrRacket Plugins) I've not f

[racket-users] Plot multiple lines from data set

2016-11-30 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Hi, I'm trying to work out how I can include multiple datasets in a single plot. (plot (list (function) ...)) works, Should I write a macro that creates an enormous plot statement? Is there another way to build the list of renderers? I've attached my example Kind regards, Stephen -- Kind reg

[racket-users] Twenty six low-risk ways to use Racket at work You can start right now

2016-09-29 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Hi all, I was listening to a podcast about F# That mentioned an article like this As I've used a racket at work a number of times for small job, it occurs to me that this might be a nice thing to pop on the wiki. Please let me know if you have any objections. Kind regards, Stephen Ref https://f

Re: [racket-users] Racket module creation in org-mode?

2016-09-07 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Sorry, I'm not sure I understand what you mean. You can use the module form to define more than one module in a file. There is also the sub-modules functionality. Both are documented at https://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/Module_Syntax.html#%28part._module-syntax%29 Kind regards Stephen On Tue, 6

Re: [racket-users] Mixin questions

2016-08-13 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Excellent write-write up ! On Fri, 12 Aug 2016 at 13:40, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > > You may want to scan this little write-up on first-class classes and > mixins: > > > http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/Thoughts/Programming_with_Class_in_Racket.html > > I intended to push into the docs at s

Re: [racket-users] Run Button interaction

2016-08-04 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
My apologies - it is in the tools docs: http://docs.racket-lang.org/tools/drracket_unit.html#%28meth._%28%28%28lib._drracket%2Ftool-lib..rkt%29._drracket~3aunit~3aframe~25%29._execute-callback%29%29 On Thu, 4 Aug 2016 at 15:43, Robby Findler wrote: > Did you try > > (define/override ... > > ?

Re: [racket-users] Run Button interaction

2016-08-03 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Hi, The DrRacket tools documentation is good but I don't think it answers this sort of question. You may find the right 'hook' in the Racket GUI Application Framework http://docs.racket-lang.org/framework/index.html I'd start with searching the source of the translations file (strings I think) t

Re: [racket-users] How to differentiate between files and directories?

2016-07-21 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/Filesystem.html#%28def._%28%28quote._~23~25kernel%29._file-exists~3f%29%29 in http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/Filesystem.html (file-exists?

[racket-users] Fwd: [racket-london]

2016-07-10 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Hi, I've made a racket-London mailing list with the idea of organising a regular meet up as per the guidance at https://github.com/racket/racket/wiki/Start-a-Meetup https://groups.google.com/group/racket-london S. -- Forwarded message - From: Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2016 at 10:57 S

Re: [racket-users] Re: ispell

2016-02-29 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
;> I tried your last pointer, but without luck. >> I decided to let it go. It is not that much important for me >> (it may be important for others, though) >> Thanks again, Jos >> >> -- >> *From:* Stephen De Gabrielle [mailto

[racket-users] Export Pict3d pict3ds composite objects as STL?

2016-02-28 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Hi My son has been doing 3D printing using blender to construct objects, but it just occurred to me the pict3ds data type might be a nice way of constructing objects? Is it possible to export Pict3d pict3ds composite objects to STL? Failing that, any tips on how to do it myself would be appreciat

Re: [racket-users] Re: ispell

2016-02-27 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
3.exe> from >> http://aspell.net/win32/. >> I suppose that would have to run on a 64 bit processor too, isn't it? >> Anyway, I don't se problems when downloading and running 32 bit versions >> of Racket. >> (I usually use the 64 bit version) >> Thanks for

Re: [racket-users] Re: ispell

2016-02-27 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
ersion) > Thanks for your help. > Jos > > ------ > *From:* Stephen De Gabrielle [mailto:spdegabrie...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* viernes, 26 de febrero de 2016 18:15 > *To:* Jos Koot; Lehi Toskin; Racket Users > *Subject:* Re: [racket-users] Re: ispell > > It's been a while b

Re: [racket-users] Re: ispell

2016-02-26 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
It's been a while but I believe the Windows installers for emacs and latex install ispell as part of their installation. It's a bit heavy handed, but it might be an expedient way to get it done. If you can identify the right executable we can take a crack at a package to install it. S. On Fri, 26

Re: [racket-users] Programming language popularity (there's no accounting for taste!)

2016-02-24 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
No need to stop at packages - whole languages. (I fancy doing Self when I am a better programmer) On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 at 21:23, Neil Van Dyke wrote: > Brian Adkins wrote on 02/24/2016 02:49 PM: > > it appears to me that Racket is the strongest of the Scheme-ey lisps, so > that's where I'm invest

Re: [racket-users] Racket machine image

2016-02-24 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
h had done all of > this in the mid 90s, following the X project from UofA. > > Computer science is the discipline of reinvention. Until everyone who > knows how to write 10 lines of code has invented a programming language and > solved the Halting Problem, nothing will be settle

[racket-users] Racket machine image

2016-02-24 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Hi, Has anyone ever done a racket machine image like: • Mirage https://mirage.io • LING/Erlang on Xen http://erlangonxen.org • Rumprum https://github.com/rumpkernel/rumprun I heard a podcast and recently saw an old presentation [1] that was interesting. I'm interested, but never had the motivation

Re: [racket-users] Detect version of OS X

2016-02-24 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Thank you - very good advice - I'll have to change my pull request. S. On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 at 10:57, Norman Gray wrote: > > Greetings > > On 23 Feb 2016, at 20:46, Jens Axel Søgaard wrote: > > > Use case: The paths to LaTeX has changed on El Capitan, > > which makes it difficult to choose a defau

Re: [racket-users] Detect version of OS X

2016-02-23 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
what about this? #lang racket/base (require racket/system racket/port) (substring (with-output-to-string (lambda () (system "sw_vers -productVersion"))) 3 5) I get "10" or "11" respectively, and I believe it will run on older versions OS X. s. On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 9:38 PM Jens Ax

Re: [racket-users] pict3d trouble

2016-02-19 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
he > context on Gtk.) A better solution would be to more directly support > the creation of screen-compatible GL contexts, but I'll leave that for > another day. > > For now, I've pushed a change to Pict3D, and the catalog should pick up > the change soon. > > At Fri,

Re: [racket-users] pict3d trouble

2016-02-18 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
, I think the problem must be > due to a change since v6.3 in `racket/gui` related to GL bitmaps. I'll > investigate more. > > Are you running 10.11 (El Capitan)? > > > At Thu, 18 Feb 2016 22:27:05 +, Stephen De Gabrielle wrote: > > [image: Screen Shot 2016-02-18 at 22.

Re: [racket-users] Re: How to put image background?

2015-12-17 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Do you mean http://docs.racket-lang.org/graphics/Draw__Clear__and_Flip_Operations.html?q=Viewport#%28part._.Pixmaps%29 I've not used the viewports stuff For the racket/gui toolkit I think you can do this by overriding on-paint for a canvas on a frame http://docs.racket-lang.org/gui/canvas___.html

Re: [racket-users] Virtual files

2015-11-05 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
M +, Stephen De Gabrielle wrote: > > Thanks. 1972- now I'm embarrassed ! > > Don't be. A lot of OS's after that failed to put their files in > memory. But I believe that current Linux's can make /tmp a ramdisk, > making it fast. If RAM runs out, of course it'

Re: [racket-users] Re: Scribble-string->xexpr ?

2015-11-04 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Thanks. 1972- now I'm embarrassed ! On Wed, 4 Nov 2015 at 20:13, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 04:53:50PM +, Stephen De Gabrielle wrote: > > I'd prefer to do it in memory. > > Writing to disk just to read it straight back seems like a lot of e

Re: [racket-users] Re: Scribble-string->xexpr ?

2015-11-04 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
I'd prefer to do it in memory. Writing to disk just to read it straight back seems like a lot of effort, and I lose the ability to make pages that are updated on-the-fly. I'll have a look at the source for the pollen and scribble renderers to see if I can separate reading a file from transforming

Re: [racket-users] Re: Scribble-string->xexpr ?

2015-11-04 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Thanks Matthew, I have two question that I didn't express clearly: 1. A renderer that would create xexpr's for direct consumption of the racket web server. It sounds like pollen will be perfect! (I quickly dismissed writing my own wiki-markup renderer on the basis that scribble already existed) 2.

Re: [racket-users] Rosetta Code: Level 1st (that's FIRST) with TCL

2015-04-29 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Are there any tasks suitable for Rosetta Code that are difficult or impossible in other languages like Python or TCL? (or Lisp, JavaScript, Self/Smalltalk, Forth ...) Kind regards, Stephen On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 at 07:57, Jens Axel Søgaard wrote: > Great news! > > Worth a blog post to follow up on

Re: [racket-users] "Save as" Scribble file extension

2015-04-14 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Found the reference. I'm assuming this applies to scribble too: -quote- On Thursday, May 9, 2013, Jay McCarthy wrote: On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Stephen De Gabrielle stephen.degabrie...@acm.org> wrote: > Weirdly Datalog on planet seems to have a editor mode, but it doesn

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