[plt-scheme] Changing the behavior of the run and debug button in DrScheme

Hi Robert,

Yes.  You'll probably need to define a tool with mixins that extend
various DrScheme classes.

You can use drscheme:get/extend:extend-unit-frame to apply a mixin to
the unit frame (the class for the top-level DrScheme window).  The
mixin can override the execute-callback method, which gets invoked
when the user clicks Run or Debug.

To run your startup code: the unit frame provides a current-tab
method, to which you can send get-ints to get the associated
interactions-text object.  Once you have the interactions-text, you
can send it run-in-evaluation-thread with a thunk containing the code
you want to run.

As far as running shutdown code, you can similarly use
drscheme:get/extend:extend-tab to override enable-evaluation in the
tab.  (I'm pretty sure enable-evaluation gets invoked once all the
definitions have been run, which should give you a suitable hook.
Someone else can correct me if I'm wrong about this.)

For examples of these mechanisms in use, you can look in
collects/mztake/debug-tool.ss.  There may be simpler examples, but
that's where my experience comes from.

Cheers,
Greg

On Feb 17, 2008 2:02 PM, Robert Matovinovic <robert.matovinovic at web.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> is it possible to change the behavior of the run and debug buttons in
> DrScheme via a tool? I implemented a module language to control an external
> program via DDE (this ancient Windows dynamic data exchange). I would like
> to implement an automated connection setup to the external program before
> the program in the definitions window in executed or debugged and an
> automated disconnection afterwards, if that language is chosen. Can anybody
> point me to the right files to look at and what might be a good way to go?
> Thanks a lot.
> Robert
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