Re: [racket-users] Enabling/disabling menu items

2019-06-11 Thread James Platt
On Jun 11, 2019, at 4:54 PM, Matthew Flatt wrote: > At Tue, 11 Jun 2019 16:45:05 -0400, James Platt wrote: >> It looks like there is not way to enable and disable (grey out) menu >> items the way that there is with buttons. > > There's no `enable` initialization argument for `menu-item%`, but

Re: [racket-users] Enabling/disabling menu items

2019-06-11 Thread Matthew Flatt
At Tue, 11 Jun 2019 16:45:05 -0400, James Platt wrote: > It looks like there is not way to enable and disable (grey out) menu > items the way that there is with buttons. There's no `enable` initialization argument for `menu-item%`, but there's an `enable` method the same as for `button%`

[racket-users] Enabling/disabling menu items

2019-06-11 Thread James Platt
It looks like there is not way to enable and disable (grey out) menu items the way that there is with buttons. So my question is whether the expectation is that you add and remove items from a menu instead or is this a reasonable feature request for a new version of Racket? To illustrate what

Re: [racket-users] scopes across files

2019-06-11 Thread Eric Griffis
On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 12:19 AM Fastmail wrote: > > The `implement` macro needs to place its identifiers (say, `say`) inside > the lexical context of the calling site, so that they bind other code > coming in from the calling site (for instance, `(say 'hello)`). Thanks! This was incredibly

[racket-users] `fontconfig` through the FFI: best practice?

2019-06-11 Thread Matthew Butterick
If I want to call functions in the `fontconfig` library through the FFI, should I be relying on the incantations in "cairo-lib.rkt"? [1] Or are those somehow specific to the `racket/draw` system? Why does the `fontconfig-lib` definition there include libraries that are not `libfontconfig`?

Re: [racket-users] Re: nannou

2019-06-11 Thread Matthias Felleisen
big-bang is intended for beginners. I understand that it can be used beyond the intended course material but I want to say that “adult programmers” are better off with the underlying graphics tool box :) > On Jun 11, 2019, at 8:10 AM, Darren Newton wrote: > > I spent a couple of weeks

[racket-users] Re: nannou

2019-06-11 Thread Darren Newton
I spent a couple of weeks working through Daniel Shiffman's The Nature of Code approximating Processing with Typed Racket. It was pretty fun, but I had to work up a lot of basics on

[racket-users] Re: grammar-based fuzzing

2019-06-11 Thread zeRusski
cool wasn't aware of Xsmith! Surprised to find RACR backing it - I looked at its source a while back for some attribute grammar magic - ended up not doing anything though - was it lack of docs - can't recall. IIRC it has some true scheme magic in there. Academics often suck at marketing ;) For

[racket-users] Re: [ann] marionette: control Firefox from Racket

2019-06-11 Thread zeRusski
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