[racket] My PLT->Racket porting experience

It looks like this has been fixed in v5.1.

Robby

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Don Blaheta <dblaheta at monm.edu> wrote:
> Progress!  Executive summary: if your students are losing their test
> results window, tell them to stop minimising it.
>
> Quoth Robby Findler:
>> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Don Blaheta <dblaheta at monm.edu> wrote:
>> > This reminds me of a related problem my students often run into: losing
>> > the test case results. Â They see it because they all tend to maximise
>> > the main window, so if they don't close or dock the test case window it
>> > gets hidden, and it doesn't resurface the next time they click Run.[0] Â So
>> > they get confused as to why "none of the test cases are failing". Â I've
>> > learned that when they say this I need to look for the *absence* of the
>> > phrase "All X tests passed!" in the interactions, which means there were
>> > *some* failures and I have to go hunting for the window.
>> >
>> > I wouldn't want to see the test case window be sticky and impossible to
>> > send to the back, but it would be nice if it always came to front when
>> > you click Run and there are some failures.
>> >
>> > [0]Well, not always. Â Sometimes the window resurfaces, and I don't know
>> > why. Â Usually not.
>>
>> Sorry for the long delay in getting to this.
>>
>> I'm not sure if this has been fixed already, but when I try this with
>> simple programs I see the window reappearing every time and, as far as
>> I can tell, there should not be any race-conditions or anything like
>> that (at least I don't see anything suspicious in that direction).
>
> I'm glad you prodded on this, because I just did some experimenting and
> discovered that I had misattributed the problem---the problem was not
> that they had maximised the main Racket window, but that they had
> *minimised* the test results window.  Here are the steps to reproduce:
>
>  Open DrRacket.
>
>  Type (check-expect 4 5) in the definitions pane
>
>  Click Run or hit Ctrl-T
>
>  Click the button on the test results window to minimise it (undock it
>  first if necessary).
>
>  Click Run or hit Ctrl-T again
>
>  Interactions pane goes straight to prompt (without reporting on
>  passing/failing tests); test results window stays minimised.
>
> This behaviour is OS-dependent; I see the issue on 5.0.1 and 5.0.2 in
> Windows 7 (can't test 5.1 there, sorry), but I do *not* see the issue on
> any of 5.0.1, 5.0.2, or 5.1 on Mac.
>
> This explains why it seemed intermittent---not every student was
> minimising the window (but most were).
>
> --
> -=-Don Blaheta-=-dblaheta at monm.edu-=-=-<http://www.monmsci.net/~dblaheta/>-=-
> Jean-Paul Sartre is sitting at a French cafe, revising his draft of
> Being and Nothingness. He says to the waitress, "I'd like a cup of
> coffee, please, with no cream." The waitress replies, "I'm sorry,
> monsieur, but we're out of no cream.  How about with no milk?"
>