Version: 5.1.2

Extending DrRacket

Robert Bruce Findler

;; indexing missing

 (require drracket/tool-lib)
 (require drscheme/tool-lib)

This manual describes DrRacket’s plugins interface. It assumes familiarity with Racket, as described in the The Racket Guide, and the The Racket Reference, DrRacket, as described in DrRacket: The Racket Programming Environment, and the GUI library, as described in The Racket Graphical Interface Toolkit. The Framework, as described in Framework: Racket GUI Application Framework, may also come in handy.

The drscheme/tool-lib library is for backward compatibility; it exports all of the bindings of drracket/tool-lib.

    1 Implementing DrRacket Plugins

    2 Adding Languages to DrRacket

      2.1 Adding Module-based Languages to DrRacket

      2.2 Adding Arbitrary Languages to DrRacket

      2.3 Language Extensions

    3 Creating New Kinds of DrRacket Frames

    4 Extending the Existing DrRacket Classes

    5 Expanding the User’s Program Text and Breaking

    6 Editor Modes

    7 Language-specific capabilities

      7.1 Customizing DrRacket’s behavior

      7.2 Customizing DrRacket’s GUI

    8 Check Syntax

    9 drracket:get/extend

    10 drracket:unit

    11 drracket:language

    12 drracket:language-configuration

    13 drracket:debug

    14 drracket:rep

    15 drracket:frame

    16 drracket:help-desk

    17 drracket:eval

    18 drracket:modes

    19 drracket:module-language-tools

    20 drracket:module-language

    21 Documentation Utilities

      21.1 Searching in the Docs

      21.2 Bug Reporting

    22 Backwards compatibility

    Index

Thanks

Thanks to PLT and the early adopters of the tools interface for their feedback and help.

A special thanks to Eli Barzilay, John Clements, Matthias Felleisen, Cormac Flanagan, Matthew Flatt, Max Hailperin, Philippe Meunier, and Christian Queinnec for their help being early clients for DrRacket plugins.