P2R

P2R (Processing to Racket) is an implementation of the Processing programming language for Racket that allows architects and designers to use Processing with their favourite CAD application.

Installation:

Before installing P2R, you will need to have Racket.

You can install P2R from DrRacket's Install Package dialog box with git://github.com/aptmcl/p2r as the package source. Alternatively, you can install it with the raco tool by running:

raco pkg install git://github.com/aptmcl/p2r

Updating:

You can update the currently installed version with DrRacket's Package Manager, or alternatively with the following raco command:

raco pkg update p2r

Features:

At the moment P2R implements Processing's basic primitive types and control flow structures. P2R uses the Rosetta library to have a rendering environment, allowing to use Processing with CAD applications (such as AutoCAD ou Rhinoceros 3D). Many of Rosetta drawing operations and capabilities were mapped to Processing.

Use:

To use P2R with Racket, simply replace #lang racket with #lang processing.

Examples

Check the examples for some ideas of how to use P2R.

To Do:

Processing's object system and exceptions
Map Processing's runtime and primitives to Racket's

Known Issue

Importing Rosetta in our implementation generates a cannot instantiate 'racket/gui/base' a second time in the same process warning which breaks DrRacket arrow/binding traking.

Acknowledgments

This work was partially supported by national funds through Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) with reference UID/CEC/50021/2013, and by the Rosetta project under contract PTDC/ATP-AQI/5224/2012.