[plt-scheme] DrScheme split up windows

From: Robby Findler (robby at cs.uchicago.edu)
Date: Wed May 16 10:01:23 EDT 2007

On 5/16/07, Paulo J. Matos <pocm at soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 5/15/07, Robby Findler <robby at cs.uchicago.edu> wrote:
> >
> > > You might also rewrite the code to have the split be vertical instead of
> > > horizontal (Probably not worth the effort).  You would need to read the code
> > > to figure out how (the documentation is not good) or someone here might
> > > already know.
> > Rewriting the code is trivial (you change on "horizontal-" into a
> > "vertical-" in an identifier somewhere), but doing it without
> > rewriting the code (via a tool (aka plugin)) would be complex.
> >
>
>
> Thank you. I'll be diggin' into the code then and I'll post if I get
> to something.

If you just want to hack your copy of drscheme, you can change
panel:vertical-dragable% to panel:horizontal-dragable% on line 960 of
plt/collects/drscheme/private/unit.ss. Be sure to run setup-plt
afterwards, tho.

It looks weird but I guess that's what you get after looking at
something the same way for more than a decade :)

http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~robby/tmp/drs-horiz.png

Robby


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