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Hi Dominique,

  I wonder, why did you decide to implement a new PDE rather than
building of DrScheme? Although many of the things on your list aren't
in DrScheme, it is possible to add all of them, without even modifying
DrScheme's source.

Robby

At Fri, 15 Nov 2002 10:28:00 -0500, "Dominique Boucher" wrote:
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> Hi Folks,
> 
> First, let me give you some background about what I do. We, at SGDL Systems,
> are using Scheme as our extension language for our proprietary 3D solid
> modeling technology. To help the modeling process, I am developing a whole
> development environment (IDE) for Scheme with the following features:
> 
> - project support (à la VisualStudio)
> - a (mostly right) syntax-coloring editor
> - various validation tools (syntax, cross-module checks, etc.)
> - code generation tools
> - HTML documentation generation (à la Javadoc) with a search engine
> - packaging tools for easy deployment of 3D scenes
> - 3D visualization tools
> - and more to come... (cross-module static analysis, visual scene editor,
> CVS support, etc.)
> 
> All this, except the 3D rendering engine, is done in Scheme on top of MrEd
> 202 and the various extensions and collects: MysterX, web-server, XML, etc.
> It's pretty clean, and fast. So first, let me thank everyone who contributed
> to this very nice piece of software.
> 
> Now, my question. The 3D rendering engine is an ActiveX control. I
> integrated it into the IDE using MysterX. Unfortunately, I find this
> solution quite unsatisfactory because it does not seem as well integrated as
> the other components. It is shown in its own top-level window that I can
> only hide and show using the 'show' method of the mx-browser% object. Has
> anyone tried to integrate an ActiveX component as a child window instead? It
> seems to me that it wouldn't be that hard to specify the parent window of
> the mx-brwoser% object at instantiation time, and pass corresponding window
> handle (HWND) to the CreateWindow function... But I may be wrong. A few
> advices would be of great help.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Dominique Boucher, Ph.D.
> SGDL systèmes
> http://www.sgdl-sys.com