Re: [racket-users] Blockly-Like Interface in DrRacket

[Stephen Foster]

Thanks Leif!

I was actually looking at your embeddable video editor a few days ago for 
inspiration.  Incidentally, I've also been playing around with #lang video 
a bit.  It's all really great stuff.  I'll definitely use these as 
inspiration.

--Stephen

On Tuesday, January 2, 2018 at 2:39:53 PM UTC-8, Leif Andersen wrote:
>
> Hello Stephens (this is going to be fun...I just know it.)
>
> As Stephen D pointed out, there was a push to add traditional gui elements 
> to DrScheme (now DrRacket), which currently lives in the `embedded-gui`[1] 
> collection. Although honestly, that library is old and hasn't been 
> maintained for years.
>
> Another alternative is my editor collection which is still in VERY early 
> stages of development[2], but it also lets you build editors in DrRacket. 
> I'm still making a cleaner interface for it, and ultimately I would like to 
> be able to make a nice graphical video editor with it. (Powered by #lang 
> video[3]). But for now, you can see an example of doing a similar thing 
> (making a video editor that is embedded directly in code) on github[4].
>
> Good luck Stephen F. and feel free to ping me if you have any questions.
>
> [1]: https://docs.racket-lang.org/embedded-gui/index.html
> [2]: https://github.com/videolang/idmt
> [3]: https://lang.video
> [4]: 
> https://github.com/videolang/video/blob/master/video/private/editor.rkt
>
> ~Leif Andersen
>
> On Monday, January 1, 2018 at 12:39:10 PM UTC-5, Stephen Foster wrote:
>>
>> Yes, exactly -- Like Snap! except I don't need the runtime, just the code 
>> editing paradigm.
>>
>> I googled for insert-gui and the closest thing I found was this:
>>
>> https://github.com/mflatt/guibuilder 
>> 
>>
>> This seems really promising.
>>
>> Also, I didn't know about the plot library and its interactive snips.  So 
>> I'll look more deeply at that too.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> --Stephen
>>
>> On Saturday, December 30, 2017 at 5:31:28 PM UTC-8, spdegabrielle wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Stephen, 
>>>
>>> I'm assuming you meant something like Snap (http://snap.berkeley.edu) 
>>> in Dr Racket? 
>>>  
>>> Snips are powerful; they can inserted in text and pasteboard editors; 
>>> they can be dynamic(e.g. plot), and they can contain other editors(text or 
>>> pasteboard).
>>>
>>> The only possibly related prior work I’m aware of was an insert-gui 
>>> functionality in DrRacket (maybe even DrScheme?) which allowed you to 
>>> insert GUI elements into program text.
>>>
>>> There was a query about 'Extending DrRacket with non-text tabs' that 
>>> might be helpful (see 
>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/racket-users/Iu2XtxNX_Kk/SiavnnkYDEoJ)
>>>
>>> The DrRacket plugins documentation has a example of extending DrRacket 
>>> https://docs.racket-lang.org/tools/implementing-tools.html
>>>
>>> Kind regards, 
>>> Stephen D
>>>
>>> some documentation links:
>>>  * DrRacket Plugins: http://docs.racket-lang.org/tools/index.html
>>>
>>>  * Graphical Interface Toolkit: http://docs.racket-lang.org/gui/ 
>>> * Pasteboard(editor): 
>>> http://docs.racket-lang.org/gui/pasteboard_.html
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 at 04:30, Stephen Foster  
>>> wrote:
>>>
 If I wanted to build a drag-and-drop, visual programming interface for 
 programming in DrRacket, is there any prior work I can build on?  Ideally, 
 I'd like to implement this as a DrRacket "snip", so that my students can 
 make programs that are partially text-based and partially visual.  Any 
 suggestions?  Has anyone done something in the ballpark?  

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Re: [racket-users] Blockly-Like Interface in DrRacket

[Leif Andersen]

Hello Stephens (this is going to be fun...I just know it.)

As Stephen D pointed out, there was a push to add traditional gui elements 
to DrScheme (now DrRacket), which currently lives in the `embedded-gui`[1] 
collection. Although honestly, that library is old and hasn't been 
maintained for years.

Another alternative is my editor collection which is still in VERY early 
stages of development[2], but it also lets you build editors in DrRacket. 
I'm still making a cleaner interface for it, and ultimately I would like to 
be able to make a nice graphical video editor with it. (Powered by #lang 
video[3]). But for now, you can see an example of doing a similar thing 
(making a video editor that is embedded directly in code) on github[4].

Good luck Stephen F. and feel free to ping me if you have any questions.

[1]: https://docs.racket-lang.org/embedded-gui/index.html
[2]: https://github.com/videolang/idmt
[3]: https://lang.video
[4]: https://github.com/videolang/video/blob/master/video/private/editor.rkt

~Leif Andersen

On Monday, January 1, 2018 at 12:39:10 PM UTC-5, Stephen Foster wrote:
>
> Yes, exactly -- Like Snap! except I don't need the runtime, just the code 
> editing paradigm.
>
> I googled for insert-gui and the closest thing I found was this:
>
> https://github.com/mflatt/guibuilder 
> 
>
> This seems really promising.
>
> Also, I didn't know about the plot library and its interactive snips.  So 
> I'll look more deeply at that too.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --Stephen
>
> On Saturday, December 30, 2017 at 5:31:28 PM UTC-8, spdegabrielle wrote:
>>
>> Hi Stephen, 
>>
>> I'm assuming you meant something like Snap (http://snap.berkeley.edu) in 
>> Dr Racket? 
>>  
>> Snips are powerful; they can inserted in text and pasteboard editors; 
>> they can be dynamic(e.g. plot), and they can contain other editors(text or 
>> pasteboard).
>>
>> The only possibly related prior work I’m aware of was an insert-gui 
>> functionality in DrRacket (maybe even DrScheme?) which allowed you to 
>> insert GUI elements into program text.
>>
>> There was a query about 'Extending DrRacket with non-text tabs' that 
>> might be helpful (see 
>> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/racket-users/Iu2XtxNX_Kk/SiavnnkYDEoJ)
>>
>> The DrRacket plugins documentation has a example of extending DrRacket 
>> https://docs.racket-lang.org/tools/implementing-tools.html
>>
>> Kind regards, 
>> Stephen D
>>
>> some documentation links:
>>  * DrRacket Plugins: http://docs.racket-lang.org/tools/index.html
>>
>>  * Graphical Interface Toolkit: http://docs.racket-lang.org/gui/ 
>> * Pasteboard(editor): 
>> http://docs.racket-lang.org/gui/pasteboard_.html
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 at 04:30, Stephen Foster  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> If I wanted to build a drag-and-drop, visual programming interface for 
>>> programming in DrRacket, is there any prior work I can build on?  Ideally, 
>>> I'd like to implement this as a DrRacket "snip", so that my students can 
>>> make programs that are partially text-based and partially visual.  Any 
>>> suggestions?  Has anyone done something in the ballpark?  
>>>
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Re: [racket-users] Blockly-Like Interface in DrRacket

[Stephen Foster]

Yes, exactly -- Like Snap! except I don't need the runtime, just the code 
editing paradigm.

I googled for insert-gui and the closest thing I found was this:

https://github.com/mflatt/guibuilder

This seems really promising.

Also, I didn't know about the plot library and its interactive snips.  So 
I'll look more deeply at that too.

Thanks!

--Stephen

On Saturday, December 30, 2017 at 5:31:28 PM UTC-8, spdegabrielle wrote:
>
> Hi Stephen, 
>
> I'm assuming you meant something like Snap (http://snap.berkeley.edu) in 
> Dr Racket? 
>  
> Snips are powerful; they can inserted in text and pasteboard editors; they 
> can be dynamic(e.g. plot), and they can contain other editors(text or 
> pasteboard).
>
> The only possibly related prior work I’m aware of was an insert-gui 
> functionality in DrRacket (maybe even DrScheme?) which allowed you to 
> insert GUI elements into program text.
>
> There was a query about 'Extending DrRacket with non-text tabs' that might 
> be helpful (see 
> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/racket-users/Iu2XtxNX_Kk/SiavnnkYDEoJ)
>
> The DrRacket plugins documentation has a example of extending DrRacket 
> https://docs.racket-lang.org/tools/implementing-tools.html
>
> Kind regards, 
> Stephen D
>
> some documentation links:
>  * DrRacket Plugins: http://docs.racket-lang.org/tools/index.html
>
>  * Graphical Interface Toolkit: http://docs.racket-lang.org/gui/ 
> * Pasteboard(editor): http://docs.racket-lang.org/gui/pasteboard_.html
>
>
> On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 at 04:30, Stephen Foster  > wrote:
>
>> If I wanted to build a drag-and-drop, visual programming interface for 
>> programming in DrRacket, is there any prior work I can build on?  Ideally, 
>> I'd like to implement this as a DrRacket "snip", so that my students can 
>> make programs that are partially text-based and partially visual.  Any 
>> suggestions?  Has anyone done something in the ballpark?  
>>
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Re: [racket-users] Blockly-Like Interface in DrRacket

[Stephen De Gabrielle]

Hi Stephen,

I'm assuming you meant something like Snap (http://snap.berkeley.edu) in Dr
Racket?

Snips are powerful; they can inserted in text and pasteboard editors; they
can be dynamic(e.g. plot), and they can contain other editors(text or
pasteboard).

The only possibly related prior work I’m aware of was an insert-gui
functionality in DrRacket (maybe even DrScheme?) which allowed you to
insert GUI elements into program text.

There was a query about 'Extending DrRacket with non-text tabs' that might
be helpful (see
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/racket-users/Iu2XtxNX_Kk/SiavnnkYDEoJ)

The DrRacket plugins documentation has a example of extending DrRacket
https://docs.racket-lang.org/tools/implementing-tools.html

Kind regards,
Stephen D

some documentation links:
 * DrRacket Plugins: http://docs.racket-lang.org/tools/index.html

 * Graphical Interface Toolkit: http://docs.racket-lang.org/gui/
* Pasteboard(editor): http://docs.racket-lang.org/gui/pasteboard_.html


On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 at 04:30, Stephen Foster 
wrote:

> If I wanted to build a drag-and-drop, visual programming interface for
> programming in DrRacket, is there any prior work I can build on?  Ideally,
> I'd like to implement this as a DrRacket "snip", so that my students can
> make programs that are partially text-based and partially visual.  Any
> suggestions?  Has anyone done something in the ballpark?
>
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