racket-templates / gui-app

gui-app is a modernised version of the GUI app described in ‘Programming Languages as Operating Systems’ (1999) by M. Flatt, R. Findler, S. Krishnamurthi and M. Felleisen

gui-app

A template GUI application

How To Install

1. Set your PATH environment variable so you can use raco and other Racket command line functions.
2. either look for from-template in the DrRacket menu File|Package Manager, or run the raco command:

raco pkg install from-template

raco new gui-app <destination-dir>

If you omit <destination-dir>, the command will add copy the template to a folder called gui-app in the current folder.

How to use

This is working example that you can change to suit your needs.

For more guidance see https://docs.racket-lang.org/gui/index.html

Other examples of GUI apps are the 7GUI benchmarks and the games collection included in the Racket distribution

https://github.com/mfelleisen/7GUI

https://github.com/racket/games

To create an executable see https://docs.racket-lang.org/raco/exe.html

To share stand-alone executables see https://docs.racket-lang.org/raco/exe-dist.html

This code is a modernised version of the code for the paper Programming Languages as Operating Systems (1999) https://www2.ccs.neu.edu/racket/pubs/icfp99-ffkf.pdf It is provided with permission of author Matthew Flatt