Couple years ago I developed an IDE for NewLISP called NewIDE using a commercial tool called Xojo. It was supposed to become NewLISP's official IDE. I had to put the project on pause because of work and family, and at the same time I switched to Racket, hence my interest. It had replicated most of DrRacket's basic functions apart from the debugger and profiler, but was much faster (native controls + LLVM). I have plenty of time on my hands lately, and I'll take a couple hours each day to analyze DrRacket and see where I can reduce delays and improve responsiveness. Who knows, it might pay off.
After a quick first pass over each module, what DrRacket's source needs is : 1) a detailed description of what each module does; 2) a description of what each function/class does, methods and properties etc. I don't see a lot of comments at the moment. I'll gladly volunteer to write those. I'll annotate the code as I go through it, and I'll push it to a new github when I have enough of it documented. If the DrRacket's authors are happy with the result, we'll merge? As for the delay, I'm sure there's a callback somewhere which launches the context-sensitive help, or loads the docs in the background like you said. There's gotta be a way to move this loading time somewhere more appropriate, like say during the init splash, or at the very least display a loading dialog box to inform the user. Let me know what you think, Dex On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 6:17 PM Robby Findler <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 10:36 AM Gustavo Massaccesi <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I try to encourage people to participate, but be careful because this >> task is probably too big for a first contribution. GUI is difficult, >> DrRacket has a lot of moving parts, and opening DrRacket inside DrRacket is >> possible but weird. >> >> > +1 > > >> I think the guess of Matthew is correct, it´s a problem with the blue >> arrow with the docs. There is no pause while you type numbers but when you >> type a letter or +-*/... there is a pause of 1 or 2 seconds. >> >> I didn't see the code but my guess is that the docs are loaded lazily in >> a thread and when DrRackets see something like an identifier it waits until >> the thread is ready. It would be nice if the blue arrow is disabled until >> the docs are completely loaded lazily. I think Robby can tell if I'm >> correct and how hard is to fix this. >> >> > Definitely sounds like an extremely actionable hypothesis to investigate > and, if it turns out to be correct, I guess it should be a simple matter of > programming to do what you're suggesting. > > Robby > > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/CACUENr%2BDgdCBJ3JDUT8MQMCaRY03A2-y5TtFXLO8bRe%3Dyctkpg%40mail.gmail.com.
