[racket-users] Racket GUI editor: how read and process keyboard input

2020-12-06 Thread Christian Lykke
I would like to create an editor where I can use capslock or some other key to input special commands somewhat similar to M-x in emacs. with capslock (since I never use capslock anyway): every time I write someting in the editor, a function should run that will do something with the input. If

Re: [racket-users] Racket GUI editor: how read and process keyboard input

2020-12-06 Thread Sorawee Porncharoenwase
IIRC, capslock can’t be handled by applications. When people customize capslock to do something else, what they actually do is to ask their OS to redirect the capslock keypress to other keys (say, F2), and then intercept these other keys instead. To catch keypresses like F2, create your own class

[racket-users] Re: I want to find the width of this image, why it says unbound identifier?

2020-12-06 Thread Yi Chen
it helps a lot. Thx, have a nice day -:) 在2020年12月6日星期日 UTC+8 下午3:47:31 写道: > On Sat, 5 Dec 2020 19:26:30 -0800 (PST), Yi Chen > wrote: > > > #lang slideshow > > (define cat ) > > (image-width (cat)) > > There is no function "image-width" in slideshow. > > see:

Re: [racket-users] Racket GUI editor: how read and process keyboard input

2020-12-06 Thread Matthew Flatt
Although key events from `racket/gui` cannot report the press of Caps Lock as an independent event, each key event reports whether Caps Lock is currently on, which I think is relevant here. For example, using (define mainTextArea (new (class text% (define/override

Re: [racket-users] Using Scribble for Course Notes?

2020-12-06 Thread William J. Bowman
I've been using Scribble for course notes with math. In particular using: - https://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble-math/index.html I haven't tried embedding videos, but it's not difficult to embed HTML directly. -

[racket-users] Using Scribble for Course Notes?

2020-12-06 Thread dyrueta
Hi All — I have a set of course notes for a Calc I class that I routinely teach which includes links to Desmos graphs and pre-recorded videos on selected topics. Recently, I began to think about producing a version of the notes that embed the graphs and lectures directly into the document and

Re: [racket-users] Using Scribble for Course Notes?

2020-12-06 Thread dyrueta
Thank you William! That's super helpful. I'll check out the links and follow up with questions as they arise. Cheers, Dave On Sunday, December 6, 2020 at 2:23:25 PM UTC-8 William J. Bowman wrote: > I've been using Scribble for course notes with math. In particular using: > -