[racket] How to get a pict-box into a slideshow?

Agreed, but if you want to play with them anyway, you can set the
PLTPICTBOX environment variable (to anything) before starting DrRacket
to enable the "Inset Pict Box" menu item.

At Mon, 16 Sep 2013 06:54:11 -0500, Robby Findler wrote:
> Pict boxes were an experiment that didn't work out.
> 
> Picts, however, are still going strong and so you probably want just to use
> them.
> 
> Robby
> 
> 
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 12:46 AM, Konrad Hinsen
> <konrad.hinsen at fastmail.net>wrote:
> 
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I have started looking at the slideshow language, which looks like an
> > interesting candidate for solving the old problem of finding the right
> > balance between programmatic and interactive construction of
> > presentations.
> >
> > The interactive element seems to be provided by something called
> > pict-box, and Google shows me plenty of documentation that points to a
> > menu in DrRacket that says "Insert Pict Box". But my version of
> > DrRacket (5.3.6 running under MacOS X) doesn't have it. There's
> > "Racket Box", "Racket Slice Box" and "Text Box".
> >
> > So how do I create a pict-box?
> >
> > Konrad.
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