Curious... thank you, I was trying to figure out what set-tabs meant. ;) Alex Harsanyi writes:
> The simplest thing is to just use tabs. A line of text would be > "<user>\tYour Message here" and an overflowing line would be "\tOverflowing > message". Yes, this will work for variable width fonts. > > The `text%` class has a `set-tabs` method which allows setting the tab > stops in drawing units on the canvas, so you can override `on-display-size` > to set the tab width to be a percentage of the display, or you can leave it > as a fixed width. > > Alex. > > On Tuesday, August 11, 2020 at 3:32:41 AM UTC+8 cwebber wrote: > >> 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/87wo24bs4l.fsf%40dustycloud.org.
