Hello, I'm building a little chat application with Racket. Overall Racket's GUI tools are quite comfortable, and I'm just using Rakcet's text editor stuff to build the chat. But a fairly standard thing to do with chat applications is to have text like:
(Beware, fixed width ascii art ahead) .----------------------------------------------------------------. | FooChat Deluxe [X]| |----------------------------------------------------------------| | File Blah | |----------------------------------------------------------------| | <alice> | It's snowing outside!! | alice | | <bob> | In August???? | bob | | <alice> | Nevermind, the snow is a representation of | carol | | | collective anxiety about the world | | | <bob> | Oh okay it is snowing then | | |----------------------------------------------------------------| | [Better go get some snow shoes then___________________] [Send] | '----------------------------------------------------------------' The core idea there being that usernames left-align to the text. I'm not sure what's the nicest way to do this, though I've taken a guess that maybe the "Show/Hide Line Numbers" in DrRacket is the best example. I'd be happy to look at that but I can't really find it in the drracket repository and am not sure where it would be? (I guess one other complication is that if you copy-pasta text it would be great to still be able to copy paste the names too, but I can think of some kludgery that might make that possible.) - Chris -- 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/87lfime1pm.fsf%40dustycloud.org.
