Just to be sure I'm understanding: you can put this into any GUI where you can put an editor-canvas% object, right? So it should just be a couple of object creations and method calls to get this going?
Robby On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Neil Toronto <neil.toro...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 02/06/2012 04:14 AM, Nikolaus Klepp wrote: >> >> Hi! >> >> When I create a 3D plot in DrRacket, I can rotate the plot by clicking on >> it >> and dragging the mouse. Now I would like to embed the same plot with the >> same >> ability in my GUI. Is there an easy way to do that? > > > Great idea! > > Unfortunately, I didn't think of making an easy way to do it. Fortunately, > `plot' already does something similar: if you set (plot-new-window? #t), > plots appear on a canvas in a new frame. You just need to do that without > the frame. > > The relevant code is in "<racket-dir>/collects/plot/common/gui.rkt", > specifically the `make-snip-frame' function. > > The basic idea is to make a canvas containing a single read-only-text% that > is initially writable, insert the snip (which you get from `plot-snip' or > `plot3d-snip'), and then set the text to read-only. If you want to change > the plot, set the text writable, delete the snip, insert the new one, and > set it read-only again. > > If you don't mind my asking, what are you plotting in your gui? > > Neil ⊥ > > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
