[racket] Plot: plot-new-window never happens?

Oh, right you are. I misunderstood what was going on. Sorry for the noise.

Robby

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Deren Dohoda <deren.dohoda at gmail.com> wrote:
> It was convenient to have something that bypassed the whole gui issue. Since
> it really is a gui issue, I am not too offended that my own laziness got in
> my way.
>
> That said, it seemed to me that the use of the new window was a convenience
> added for just this kind of use, otherwise I would be using a snip, not just
> slamming a plot up. When plot-new-window? is #t, the call to plot evaluates
> to void. So it seems that my use case was the point. Without a reference to
> the new window, "the opposite problem"---if I understood correctly---can't
> happen. Can it?
>
> On Apr 17, 2012 3:12 PM, "Robby Findler" <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu>
> wrote:
>>
>> FWIW, I think we'd want somehow, in the library, to show plot windows
>> in a way that doesn't do any special threading/eventspace stuff, or
>> else the opposite confusion can happen.
>>
>> How about, for this situation, having a function called 'show-plot!'
>> that takes a plot and puts it into a window in a separate eventspace,
>> collecting all of the plots?
>>
>> Robby
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
>> > You could give each frame in its own eventspace.
>> >
>> > At Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:45:20 -0600, Neil Toronto wrote:
>> >> Would it be possible to change plot so that its windows always behave
>> >> like this? Could I make it not require cooperation from the program
>> >> that
>> >> calls `plot-frame'?
>> >>
>> >> This is going to come up every time someone wants to pop up plot
>> >> windows
>> >> in a non-GUI, interactive loop.
>> >>
>> >> Neil ⊥
>> >>
>> >> On 04/17/2012 10:48 AM, Matthew Flatt wrote:
>> >> > All GUI activity like window drawing happens only in the main thread
>> >> > of
>> >> > an eventspace. Your program also starts out in the main thread. So,
>> >> > yes, drawing has to wait until your loop completes.
>> >> >
>> >> > One solution is to put your loop in a separate thread. The example
>> >> > below creates a thread and passes it to `yield' to wait until the
>> >> > thread is done. The `yield' function is special in that it lets other
>> >> > GUI activity happen while it waits:
>> >> >
>> >> >   #lang at-exp racket
>> >> >   (require plot
>> >> >            racket/gui/base)
>> >> >   (plot-new-window? #t)
>> >> >   (yield
>> >> >    (thread
>> >> >     (lambda ()
>> >> >       (let loop ()
>> >> >         (let ((dummy (read)))
>> >> >           (if (and (number? dummy) (zero? dummy))
>> >> >               (void)
>> >> >               (begin
>> >> >                 (plot (function (λ(x) (* x x)) -2 2))
>> >> >                 (loop))))))))
>> >> >
>> >> > Although the above should work, it's not really a good idea to
>> >> > perform
>> >> > GUI actions outside of the main thread. So, here's an improved
>> >> > version
>> >> > that uses `queue-callback' to send the `plot' call back to the main
>> >> > thread:
>> >> >
>> >> >   #lang at-exp racket
>> >> >   (require plot
>> >> >            racket/gui/base)
>> >> >   (plot-new-window? #t)
>> >> >   (yield
>> >> >    (thread
>> >> >     (lambda ()
>> >> >       (let loop ()
>> >> >         (let ((dummy (read)))
>> >> >           (if (and (number? dummy) (zero? dummy))
>> >> >               (void)
>> >> >               (begin
>> >> >                 ;; queue a callback instead of `plot' directly:
>> >> >                 (queue-callback
>> >> >                  (lambda ()
>> >> >                    (plot (function (λ(x) (* x x)) -2 2))))
>> >> >                 (loop))))))))
>> >> >
>> >> > For more information, see
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> http://docs.racket-lang.org/gui/windowing-overview.html#(part._eventspaceinfo)
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > At Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:40:55 -0400, Deren Dohoda wrote:
>> >> >> I was messing around with a spline utility last night and was using
>> >> >> the plot-new-window? setting to get a plot. The goal was to share an
>> >> >> exe with a coworker who doesn't have Racket. Just a command-line app
>> >> >> but to get the plot to display I needed a window and this seemed
>> >> >> awesome. The problem is I couldn't get the plot to display when the
>> >> >> thread was in a procedure. The window would appear but it was like
>> >> >> the
>> >> >> plot backend wasn't free to draw to it. Here's a way to reproduce it
>> >> >> on v5.2:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> #lang at-exp racket
>> >> >> (require plot)
>> >> >> (plot-new-window? #t)
>> >> >> (let loop ()
>> >> >>    (let ((dummy (read)))
>> >> >>      (if (and (number? dummy) (zero? dummy))
>> >> >>          (void)
>> >> >>          (begin
>> >> >>            (plot (function (λ(x) (* x x)) -2 2))
>> >> >>            (loop)))))
>> >> >>
>> >> >> So long as you are looping, new windows will appear without plot
>> >> >> contents. When you finally quit (here by entering the number zero)
>> >> >> all
>> >> >> the plots are drawn in those windows. Any help? Did I do something
>> >> >> horribly dumb?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Thanks,
>> >> >> Deren
>> >> >>
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