[racket-users] Re: Racket + Graphviz

2019-08-01 Thread Ryan Kramer
This looks interesting! I have thought about trying to generate Entity Relationship diagrams given a database schema, but assumed that laying out the boxes would be a hard problem. Looks like GraphViz might do a decent job at this. I'll try it out and let you know how it goes. -- You received

Re: [racket-users] Re: Racket + Graphviz

2019-08-01 Thread Hadi Moshayedi
On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 12:23 PM Ryan Kramer wrote: > This looks interesting! I have thought about trying to generate Entity > Relationship diagrams given a database schema, but assumed that laying out > the boxes would be a hard problem. Looks like GraphViz might do a decent > job at this. I'll

Re: [racket-users] [standard-fish] Reverse engineered quilt design

2019-08-01 Thread Daniel Prager
Hi Stephen What specifically would you like to hear more about? Cheers Dan On Thu., 1 Aug. 2019, 00:39 Stephen De Gabrielle, wrote: > Hi Daniel > > On Wed, 31 Jul 2019 at 14:16, Daniel Prager > wrote: > >> On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 6:28 PM Stephen De Gabrielle < >> spdegabrie...@gmail.com>

Re: [racket-users] [standard-fish] Reverse engineered quilt design

2019-08-01 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
How your use of racket has evolved over the past 5 years * how you handled the changes to racket in that time * what was good (and bad) about using Racket in general what has changed since that presentation? Stephen On Thursday, August 1, 2019 at 10:03:19 AM UTC+1, Daniel Prager wrote: > >

Re: [racket-users] Symex: a DSL for symbolic expressions

2019-08-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 06:40:05PM -0400, Neil Van Dyke wrote: > > For structured editing related work in sexp, of course there's Emacs > structural operations that have been in there forever (not well-known, Certainly not well known. I've been using emacs for decades, and I never heard of them.

Re: [racket-users] Re: Racket + Graphviz

2019-08-01 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Hadi Moshayedi wrote on 8/1/19 4:14 PM: On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 12:23 PM Ryan Kramer > wrote: This looks interesting! I have thought about trying to generate Entity Relationship diagrams given a database schema, but assumed that laying out the boxes

Re: [racket-users] Symex: a DSL for symbolic expressions

2019-08-01 Thread Siddhartha Kasivajhula
> > > generalization of modal user interfaces that has a "language-oriented > > programming" flavor. > Applying traditionally-sexp structural-based editing to non-sexp > languages seems relevant to non-sexp Racket2 syntax (e.g., Honu), and > other non-sexp languages. The generalization I'm

Re: [racket-users] Unwelcome surprises using Scribble on a 90,000-word novel

2019-08-01 Thread Robby Findler
On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 12:54 PM Hendrik Boom wrote: > At present, @include-section invokes require. Does it need to? Does > it actually export identifiers to the invoking scribble file? Or is > this just a convenient way of getting it to process the #lang line and > treat the included file

Re: [racket-users] Symex: a DSL for symbolic expressions

2019-08-01 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Hendrik Boom wrote on 8/1/19 6:36 AM: On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 06:40:05PM -0400, Neil Van Dyke wrote: For structured editing related work in sexp, of course there's Emacs structural operations that have been in there forever (not well-known, Here's where some of them are listed in the

Re: [racket-users] [standard-fish] Reverse engineered quilt design

2019-08-01 Thread Daniel Prager
On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 9:53 PM John Clements wrote: > That’s a really nice example of the uses of abstraction in non-programming > domains. Thanks! > Thanks, John! I think there's real potential for a *#lang quilt *as a(nother) creative way to teach aspects of programming while exploring a

Re: [racket-users] [standard-fish] Reverse engineered quilt design

2019-08-01 Thread Daniel Prager
Hi Stephen On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 8:31 PM Stephen De Gabrielle wrote: > How your use of racket has evolved over the past 5 years > * how you handled the changes to racket in that time > * what was good (and bad) about using Racket > > in general what has changed since that presentation? > Not

[racket-users] Retina display for OpenGL

2019-08-01 Thread Kshitij Sachan
I've set up an OpenGL context that is displayed in a snip (I chose a snip because I want to be able to move the camera around and generally respond to user input). However, I've noticed that the OpenGL context in Racket looks considerably worse than when I run the same OpenGL code in C++ (the

[racket-users] Re: Retina display for OpenGL

2019-08-01 Thread 'Mark Warren' via Racket Users
I've never used this before so I may be completely wrong, but you can supply gl-config% to the make-gl-bitmap and there is a method on it (send a-gl-config

[racket-users] Re: Retina display for OpenGL

2019-08-01 Thread Kshitij Sachan
Here is some more information about how I get the OpenGL context. First, I make a bitmap using `make-gl-bitmap`. Then, I make a bitmap-dc% object that contains my glbitmap and get its gl-context% object using `get-gl-context`. On Thursday, August 1, 2019 at 9:36:07 AM UTC-4, Kshitij Sachan

[racket-users] Re: Retina display for OpenGL

2019-08-01 Thread Kshitij Sachan
That looked so promising! Unfortunately I just tried it, and nothing changed. :( On Thursday, August 1, 2019 at 10:02:35 AM UTC-4, Mark Warren wrote: > > I've never used this before so I may be completely wrong, but you can > supply gl-config% to the make-gl-bitmap and there is a method on it

[racket-users] Re: Retina display for OpenGL

2019-08-01 Thread 'Mark Warren' via Racket Users
That's a shame, I'm afraid I'm out of ideas then. Hopefully someone else will know. On Thursday, 1 August 2019 14:36:07 UTC+1, Kshitij Sachan wrote: > > I've set up an OpenGL context that is displayed in a snip (I chose a snip > because I want to be able to move the camera around and generally

[racket-users] Re: Racket v7.3.0.900 is available for testing

2019-08-01 Thread Roman Klochkov
Run DrRacket on Windows. OK Run my program. OK. Try to build exe file Got this in console: module: current code inspector cannot redeclare module module name: # context...: declare-module!58 declare-this-module eval-module8 for-loop declare-submodules declare-this-module

[racket-users] Unwelcome surprises using Scribble on a 90,000-word novel

2019-08-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
Well, my novel draft made it through Scribble, but not intact. (1) Some of the @ commands I use are intended to cause conditional inclusion of their contents, dependong on a command-line arameter (which haven't yet implemented in scribble. This is so I can keep my athor's notes about the

Re: [racket-users] Unwelcome surprises using Scribble on a 90,000-word novel

2019-08-01 Thread Benjamin Lerner
On 8/1/19 7:25 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: Well, my novel draft made it through Scribble, but not intact. (1) Some of the @ commands I use are intended to cause conditional inclusion of their contents, dependong on a command-line arameter (which haven't yet implemented in scribble. This is so I

Re: [racket-users] [standard-fish] Reverse engineered quilt design

2019-08-01 Thread 'John Clements' via Racket Users
That’s a really nice example of the uses of abstraction in non-programming domains. Thanks! John > On Jul 30, 2019, at 19:04, Daniel Prager wrote: > > Here's a photo of the original quilt from Red Pepper Quilts (not my work): > > > > More images, including details, here: >

Re: [racket-users] Re: Racket v7.3.0.900 is available for testing

2019-08-01 Thread Matthew Flatt
At Thu, 1 Aug 2019 06:06:29 -0700 (PDT), Alex Harsanyi wrote: > When I runActivityLog2 there is some code which prints out a number to the > console when the application starts up -- this does not happen if I build > the application with Racket 7.3, so it is not a spurious printf in my > code.

Re: [racket-users] [ANN] Racket implementation of magic language

2019-08-01 Thread Jonathan Simpson
Thanks for the feedback. I haven't used scribble before, but I'll look into it. Do you feel that it would be helpful to add scribble documentation for the magic language itself, or are you just referring to the API provided by #lang magic modules? For the language itself, I can see

Re: [racket-users] Re: Racket v7.3.0.900 is available for testing

2019-08-01 Thread Alex Harsanyi
I installed the latest version, and Racket and raco run fine, but I am sorry to report some more problems with it: When I runActivityLog2 there is some code which prints out a number to the console when the application starts up -- this does not happen if I build the application with Racket

[racket-users] evaluating Scribble for prose

2019-08-01 Thread David Storrs
tl;dr When writing prose, what are the 'killer features' of Scribble that make people choose it over any other tool? (Specifically in the context of prose -- Scribble is unbeatable when writing Racket documentation.) Learning scribble seems like a big investment, and when writing prose I'm not

[racket-users] Re: [standard-fish] Summer competiton 2019

2019-08-01 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Hi, I forgot to mention some other tools you can use to make your entries: - https://docs.racket-lang.org/metapict/ - https://docs.racket-lang.org/pict3d Let me know if I have missed any, Great entries so far! Stephen On Tuesday, July 30, 2019 at 8:28:51 PM UTC+1, Stephen

[racket-users] Re: Racket + Graphviz

2019-08-01 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
this looks very nice! Thank you for sharing this. Don't forget to put it in a `package` and publish it on https://pkgs.racket-lang.org/ kind regards, Stephen On Wednesday, July 31, 2019 at 11:52:05 PM UTC+1, Hadi Moshayedi wrote: > > Hello Racketeers, > > Recently I've started thinking

Re: [racket-users] [standard-fish] Reverse engineered quilt design

2019-08-01 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Thanks Daniel. the ideal of a #lang quilt sounds good. S. On Thursday, August 1, 2019 at 1:22:55 PM UTC+1, Daniel Prager wrote: > > Hi Stephen > > On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 8:31 PM Stephen De Gabrielle > wrote: > >> How your use of racket has evolved over the past 5 years >> * how you handled the

Re: [racket-users] Unwelcome surprises using Scribble on a 90,000-word novel

2019-08-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 07:41:46AM -0400, Benjamin Lerner wrote: > On 8/1/19 7:25 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > Well, my novel draft made it through Scribble, but not intact. > > > > > > (1) Some of the @ commands I use are intended to cause conditional > > inclusion of their contents,