[racket] Accessing Win32 API from Racket

Does 'system' do what you want?

Robby

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Harry Spier <harryspier at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Dear list members,
> Is there an extension or package for Racket that can call the Win32 API ?  I
> don't need the whole API.   I only need to execute a Win32 shell command to
> open a file with its default application indicated by the files extension.
>
>
> I have a small python utility I want to convert to Racket but to do so I
> need this capability.  The utility is written in Python with Pywin win32api
> extensions (and a tcl/tk gui) . The utility selects a file  containing
> Sanskrit text in one transliteration scheme and has options to convert it
> into other transliteration schemes.  But it also has an option to convert
> the text in the file into devanagari (a script of India) and to do so it
> executes a shell command through the win32api extensions to open a file with
> its default application identified by the file extension.  The file
> extension is such that a third party windows application, a kind of
> combination editor/converter  that does this conversion opens it.  My script
> then waits until the file is closed (indicating the conversion is over) and
> then continues.  The exact command in the Python extension Pywin Win32api
> I'd like to emulate in a Racket program is:  win32api.shellexecute as
> described in this page of the documentation for win32api:
> http://timgolden.me.uk/pywin32-docs/win32api__ShellExecute_meth.html
>
>
> One of the reasons I'm doing this conversion is also to get some practical
> experience using the Racket gui toolkit.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Harry Spier
>
>
>
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