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11 Dynamic Loading🔗ℹ

The racket/gui/dynamic library provides functions for dynamically accessing the racket/gui/base library, instead of directly requiring racket/gui or racket/gui/base.

procedure

(gui-available?)  boolean?

Returns #t if dynamic access to the GUI bindings is available. The bindings are available if racket/gui/base has been loaded, instantiated, and attached to the namespace in which racket/gui/dynamic was instantiated.

procedure

(gui-dynamic-require sym)  any

  sym : symbol?
Like dynamic-require, but specifically to access exports of racket/gui/base, and only when (gui-available?) returns true.

The gui-dynamic-require function is intended primarily for use under a (gui-available?) conditional. It can also be used as a shorthand for dynamic-require with 'racket/gui/base, but only after ensuring that the bindings are available. One way to make racket/gui/base bindings available, so that (gui-available?) returns true, is through dynamic-require:

(dynamic-require 'racket/gui/base #f)

Unlike require, using dynamic-require delays the instantiation of racket/gui/base until the run-time call of dynamic-require. With racket/gui/base so declared, gui-dynamic-require can be used to access bindings:

(define window (new (gui-dynamic-require 'frame%)
                    [label "Frame"]))
(send window show #t)