[plt-scheme] custom widgets in mred

Thanks, all of you! It's a topic near and dear to my heart too, and
the links provided seem more than enough to get started. While on the
topic, what would it take to set up a 'mred widgets' section on
PLaneT? I think a central place to collect them would spur people to
polish and submit the custom widgets they create for their apps.

martin

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 3:58 AM, Stephen De Gabrielle
<stephen at degabrielle.name> wrote:
> Close to my heart too; given most widget toolkits seem to lack the richness
> one needs.
>
> It's good to look at examples;
>
> possibly hierlist.ss in drscheme
>
> the various DrScheme XML and comment boxes as well as graph.ss is
> interesting too, if you are prepared to think of snips on a canvas (sprites
> roughly) as custom widgets
>
> MrEd Designer includes some custom widgets that may be worth looking at;
> http://hexahedron.hu/personal/peteri/mreddesigner/
> (I don't know if they will survive in working form into v3.99->4)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Stephen
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 3:07 AM, Ben Simon <benjisimon at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Martin -
> >
> > You've hit on a topic that's near and dear to my heart.  Here are some
> examples you might find helpful.  In the last example, I mixed both a canvas
> and panel behavior, which allowed me to do things like draw a border around
> groups of components.
> >
> > http://schemecookbook.org/Cookbook/GUIWidgetAggregation
> > http://groups.google.com/group/plt-scheme/msg/36cc6cb7fb314711
> >
> http://benjisimon.blogspot.com/2008/03/fun-with-mred-components-retro-status.html
> >
> http://benjisimon.blogspot.com/2008/04/more-adventures-in-creating-mred.html
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 8:07 PM, Martin DeMello <martindemello at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Can someone give me minimal examples of (a) a custom widget based on
> > > drawing onto a canvas and (b) a custom widget based on composing
> > > existing widgets? I've hunted through the docs but there's no obvious,
> > > beginner-friendly "this is how you do it" code or howtos.
> > >
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