[plt-scheme] GUI guides?

Just noticed a slight hitch to such re-sizing.

1. no set-width or set-height
2. not even the old 'reposition-window' standby that is used mostly to
resize a window and only sometimes to actually move the silly thing.

Since such things are required, under what name would I find them?

--hsm

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 6:11 AM, Hugh Myers<hsmyers at gmail.com> wrote:
> Printing will be done in postscript where such information isn't
> needed. Not quite sure why I'd want to play with a print dc but
> obviously if I were going to I'd use the correct source. Not sure why
> I'd use globals either--- what I need can be computed at point of need
> just fine. Width of full line of text in a chess board remains
> constant so only needs to be computed just before showing the window.
>
> --hsm
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 6:03 AM, Robby
> Findler<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
>> That's a fine way to sizing the window, but if you want to print the
>> window, that sizing information will be wrong.
>>
>> Generally, you want to abstract over the dc for all drawing (maybe
>> you've done that already) and then just pass in the appropriate that
>> you get from the system (usually from the get-dc method of a canvas%,
>> the on-paint method of editor<%> or the print method of an editor<%>).
>> Just be careful you don't use a global values that are computed from
>> the wrong dc.
>>
>> Robby
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Hugh Myers<hsmyers at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Good point. Are you saying this is the wrong approach to correctly
>>> sizing a window displaying a chess font? If so what would you
>>> recommend?
>>>
>>> --hsm
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Hugh Myers<hsmyers at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> The key to width of text is:
>>>>
>>>>> (define dc (send c get-dc))
>>>>> (send dc get-text-extent "123456787" (make-object font% 24 "Chess Adventurer" 'symbol))
>>>>
>>>> 264.0
>>>> 32.0
>>>> 0.0
>>>> 0.0
>>>>
>>>> This while the dc in question exists...
>>>>
>>>> --hsm
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Hugh Myers<hsmyers at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Added to list:
>>>>>
>>>>> Care and feeding of Status Line---a subject worth a guide in of itself:
>>>>>
>>>>> Create a status line
>>>>> Open a status line
>>>>> Write to a status line
>>>>> Close a status line
>>>>> Remove a status line
>>>>>
>>>>> Note that the overall status line is partitioned into writable areas.
>>>>> For instance for a chess board, I would want to show the move text,
>>>>> the move number and the move ply (move number without regard to color;
>>>>> ply 1 is move 1 as is ply 2 [white's move followed by black's move
>>>>> etc.]). Perhaps also information on castling, draw information etc. An
>>>>> example rich environment.
>>>>>
>>>>> --hsm
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Hugh Myers<hsmyers at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Thanks for the pointer to dc% What you mention seems like a logical
>>>>>> (heaven forbid) arrangement given the concepts involved. Having
>>>>>> survived the age of roll-your-own gui (usually text), original
>>>>>> windows, and then MFC this should be just another notch in my
>>>>>> gui-belt. Even as we e-speak I'm in the middle of investigating frame%
>>>>>> which has some of the answers in my shopping-list. I think one of the
>>>>>> things that will be in my version of 'GUI Editor Guide' will be a list
>>>>>> of what all can be set/modified for a given window. Sometimes it is
>>>>>> easier to pick and choose from such a list than to comb a detailed
>>>>>> reference--- I think as a guide, this approach might be the one to go
>>>>>> with.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --hsm
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Ryan Culpepper<ryanc at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>>>>>>> Hugh Myers wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Am solving some of these as I try and think of questions to ask. Some
>>>>>>>> of the answers raise questions about what is or isn't do-able. For
>>>>>>>> instance given fixed width symbol font (like all chess fonts) it would
>>>>>>>> be nice to ask how wide and how tall a given text string is. This
>>>>>>>> could be used to 'size' the window before display. Nothing I've seen
>>>>>>>> yet even hints that this is possible, yet it seems quit reasonable.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I think you want 'get-text-extent' in 'dc<%>' (drawing context).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Here are some rough guidelines:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  - 'editor<%>' and 'text%' deal with the text, its styles, modifications to
>>>>>>> the text, high-level display concerns (word wrapping, visible/ region, etc).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  - 'canvas<%>' and 'editor-canvas%' deal with the gui concerns: dimensions
>>>>>>> of the editor widget, its auxiliary gui elements (scrollbars), etc.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  - 'dc<%>' deals with rendering issues, like how big a string in a
>>>>>>> particular font will be rendered on screen.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Browsing those classes and interfaces is a good way to get an idea of what
>>>>>>> functionality is available and how it's provided. Remember to look at the
>>>>>>> superclasses and superinterfaces, too.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ryan
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
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