[plt-scheme] DrScheme Printing of picts

From: Paulo J. Matos (pocmatos at gmail.com)
Date: Fri May 19 12:18:18 EDT 2006

Hi all,

By default a pict is printed in the interaction window of DrScheme as
a real picture and not as a <struct:pict>, however if you have a
function foo which returns a pict and if you do (write (foo)),
(display (foo)) or (printf  "~a" foo), in all cases you get
<struct:pict>.

How is DrScheme printing the picts? I though that grabbing the
current-display/print/write-handler would do the job but neither of
these work.

My real need is the following. I want be able to grab the object which
results in the evaluation and if it is some kind of specific object I
know it calls foo with it to return a custom pict to be printed as an
image, else I just release the object to drscheme care.

I tried:
(let ([old-display-handler (port-display-handler (current-output-port))])
      (port-display-handler (current-output-port)
                            (lambda (val port)
                              (if (is-a? val myobj<%>)
                                  (old-display-handler (foo val) port)
                                  (old-display-handler val port)))))

but this is not working. It's printing the pict resulting of foo as
<struct:pict>. Any ideas?

Thanks,
-- 
Paulo Jorge Matos - pocm at sat inesc-id pt
Web: http://sat.inesc-id.pt/~pocm
Computer and Software Engineering
INESC-ID - SAT Group


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