typesetting/quad/qtest/mds/graphics.md

Graphics and GUIs

Racket provides many libraries for graphics and graphical user interfaces GUIs:

• The racket/draw library provides basic drawing tools, including drawing contexts such as bitmaps and PostScript files.

  See [missing] for more information.

• The racket/gui library provides GUI widgets such as windows, buttons, checkboxes, and text fields. The library also includes a sophisticated and extensible text editor.

  See [missing] for more information.

• The pict library provides a more functional abstraction layer over racket/draw. This layer is especially useful for creating slide presentations with Slideshow, but it is also useful for creating images for Scribble documents or other drawing tasks. Pictures created with the pict library can be rendered to any drawing context.

  See [missing] for more information.

• The 2htdp/image library is similar to pict. It is more streamlined for pedagogical use, but also slightly more specific to screen and bitmap drawing.

  See 2htdp/image for more information.

• The sgl library provides OpenGL for 3-D graphics. The context for rendering OpenGL can be a window or bitmap created with racket/gui.

  See the SGL documentation for more information.