[plt-dev] update on reimplementing MrEd

2010-01-28 Thread Matthew Flatt
At Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:17:31 -0600, Matthew Flatt wrote: I can imagine releasing Phase 2 sometime early next year. That is, we'd throw out all the C++ code for drawing that's in MrEd, and we'd instead use Scheme+FFI code that draws via Cairo+Pango. (A canvas window would still be implemented

[plt-dev] update on reimplementing MrEd

2009-10-30 Thread Matthew Flatt
After many months of no work toward reimplementing MrEd, I've found a little time to work on it lately. The original plan: - Phase 1: convert the editor classes to Scheme (done!) - Phase 2: convert the drawing classes to Scheme using Cairo+Pango - Phase 3: convert the GUI classes to Scheme

Re: [plt-dev] update on reimplementing MrEd

2009-10-30 Thread Paulo J. Matos
I think this is one of the most important changes to PLT-Scheme in many, many versions to come. Thank you very much for this! On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 15:17 -0600, Matthew Flatt wrote: After many months of no work toward reimplementing MrEd, I've found a little time to work on it lately. The

Re: [plt-dev] update on reimplementing MrEd

2009-10-30 Thread Geoffrey S. Knauth
On Oct 30, 2009, at 17:17, Matthew Flatt wrote: And I'd still be especially happy if someone writes libraries for reading GIFs or reading and writing BMPs, XBMs, or XPMs. I'd love to help with this. Questions: - Are the desired interfaces for the future implementation already specified? -

Re: [plt-dev] update on reimplementing MrEd

2009-10-30 Thread Stevie Strickland
On Oct 30, 2009, at 6:26 PM, Geoffrey S. Knauth wrote: On Oct 30, 2009, at 17:17, Matthew Flatt wrote: And I'd still be especially happy if someone writes libraries for reading GIFs or reading and writing BMPs, XBMs, or XPMs. I'd love to help with this. I'd forgotten to mention it on-list,

Re: [plt-dev] update on reimplementing MrEd

2009-10-30 Thread Sam TH
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Matthew Flatt mfl...@cs.utah.edu wrote: If you'd like to see the current state, it's still at  http://svn.plt-scheme.org/plt/branches/mflatt/mred-experiment/ Right now, I'm having trouble running on my Ubuntu box. [sa...@punge:~/sw/mred-experiment] mz gtk.ss

Re: [plt-dev] update on reimplementing MrEd

2009-10-30 Thread Sam TH
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Sam TH sa...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Matthew Flatt mfl...@cs.utah.edu wrote: If you'd like to see the current state, it's still at  http://svn.plt-scheme.org/plt/branches/mflatt/mred-experiment/ Right now, I'm having trouble

Re: [plt-dev] update on reimplementing MrEd

2009-10-30 Thread Geoffrey S. Knauth
On Oct 30, 2009, at 18:43, Stevie Strickland wrote: On Oct 30, 2009, at 6:26 PM, Geoffrey S. Knauth wrote: On Oct 30, 2009, at 17:17, Matthew Flatt wrote: And I'd still be especially happy if someone writes libraries for reading GIFs or reading and writing BMPs, XBMs, or XPMs. I'd love to

Re: [plt-dev] update on reimplementing MrEd

2009-10-30 Thread Sam TH
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Matthew Flatt mfl...@cs.utah.edu wrote: The `ffi-lib' calls in the latest version work for me with Ubuntu 9.04 and Mac OS X. Works for me, too. -- sam th sa...@ccs.neu.edu _ For list-related administrative