Hi Deren, > > The framework provides a number of mixins, classes and functions designed > to help you build a complete application program on top of the racket/gui > library.
- https://docs.racket-lang.org/framework/index.html Check out the overview and the table of contents - it has lots of stuff useful for building a non-trivial gui application. (Imagine not having to implement autosave or preferences from scratch!) Another hidden gem for GUI applications is MrLib: https://docs.racket-lang.org/mrlib/index.html Stephen On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 3:46 PM Laurent <[email protected]> wrote: > My understanding is that Framework is born out of DrRacket, expecting that > some of its tools may be useful in other contexts (like, say, keymaps). > > > On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 3:11 PM Deren Dohoda <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > I think Racket would benefit by a suite of applications which are small >> but >> > not trivial and with a source code which is commented in more detail >> than a >> > regular application >> I would kill to understand the intended use of the framework library. I >> don't understand what I'm supposed to do with it at all. Does anyone have >> an application written with framework that I can look at? Or could we make >> a small template with some framework features like autosave which are quite >> unique to framework over racket/gui? I feel very stupid asking but my >> desire to try it has exceeded my embarrassment in this regard. >> >> Deren >> >> -- >> 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/c754b4a3-9073-4ecd-9815-7491ad96cf89n%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/c754b4a3-9073-4ecd-9815-7491ad96cf89n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > 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/CABNTSaGAHqYPKtU-dTnOQ5ZNO0tMWuTgrRW8w8o2iNeZc7bEYg%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/CABNTSaGAHqYPKtU-dTnOQ5ZNO0tMWuTgrRW8w8o2iNeZc7bEYg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CAGHj7-LGWJBwWqQZ8CeFhVNoGuRYPYsif%2B9RAy-wXGA8Dcdjeg%40mail.gmail.com.

