[racket] Can I make the frame% instances transparent?

On Jan 18, 2014, at 5:48 PM, WarGrey Gyoudmon Ju wrote:

> Okay, I see.
> 
> Two more questions.
> 1. Can frame% instance be transparent so that I can see the 2nd top-level window through it?

Are you looking for a pane?


> 2. In my architecture, Mode and Controller are implemented as a local server which communicates with GUI front-end via Message Passing Style Communicating. So is it possible to separate GUI objects into Places so that they can do their own tasks in parallel?  


That should work just fine. 


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> On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 11:09 PM, Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
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> On Jan 18, 2014, at 7:14 AM, WarGrey Gyoudmon Ju wrote:
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> > These days I am researching on a new Editor/IDE to take the place of Vim and Emacs.
> > In order to learn programing languages(not only racket) deeply I won't make it as the DrRacket's plugin.
> >
> > I also like the transparent style in which way I use terminal so that I can check resources at the same time when coding. Is there any direct way to get it?
> >
> > Racket provides lots of graphic documents, but I think they are not good organised. Do (big-bang) and the HtDP teachpacks suitable to build real world GUI applications?
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> The 2htdp libraries ("big bang") scale to a certain level of 'real world'. See the Realm of Racket book for some examples.
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> If you need any performance, I recommend you start with the layer below 2htdp because you want to circumvent two inefficiencies in the current implementation: (1) big-bang and friends check a lot of things to catch errors very very early for students and (2) the functional approach is a bit too naive for hierarchical GUIs.
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> -- Matthias
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