racket/htdp

Canvas window cannot be closed with keyboard on OS X

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#5 opened on Jun 1, 2015

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Description

I am reading through HtDP/2e and find it annoying that pressing Cmd+W or Esc can't close the canvas windows that appears while using the animate from 2htdp/universe. Cmd+Q, of course, tries to close the whole DrRacket IDE. The only way it seems is to use the mouse pointer to press the red close button.

(previously reported as https://github.com/racket/drracket/issues/6)

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Research direction
Investigate the key event handling for canvas windows in the 2htdp/universe library on OS X. Check how keyboard shortcuts (Cmd+W, Esc) are currently processed and why they fail to close the window. Look at the event queue and window manager interactions.
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desktop
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Clear
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RacketDrRacketGUI event handling
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