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 <matth...@ccs.neu.edu> 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 <laurent.ors...@gmail.com> 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 <matth...@ccs.neu.edu> >> wrote: >> >>> On Aug 25, 2017, at 7:43 AM, Laurent <laurent.ors...@gmail.com> 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 racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
