NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #26/NN_1992_26.iso/spool/comp/lang/scheme/2538

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From: [e-mail] (Ping Huang)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
Subject: Re: PC Scheme/Geneva release 4 available !
Date: 5 Nov 92 19:11:41
Organization: M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Lab.
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In-reply-to: [e-mail]'s message of 30 Oct 92 12:40:10

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Mark Friedman) writes:

 > Do you guys have any plans to make a Windows version of PC
 > Scheme/Geneva. In particular, a Scheme that could create and call out
 > to DDL's would be extroadinarily valuable to people who want to do
 > Windows software development using Scheme.

Well, hmmm.... Ironically, that is what I've been working on for the
last couple of months (on and off). The next revision of the port of MIT
CScheme for 386 machines running DOS will support the same graphics
calls as CScheme on other machines if you run it inside of Windows 3.1,
and it will be doing so by using a kludgy but workable form of IPC to
ask a Windows program to make Windows graphics calls for it. But the
mechanism will be general enough that you should be able to make any
Windows call from Scheme, except perhaps those that set up callback
functions. This would include calling any DLL's you care to.

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