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
>>
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