Using the Functional Graphics Tool with DrScheme

As mentioned in the description of the functional graphics teachpack, that teachpack has certain disadvantages:

We have an alternative implementation of the functional graphics package for DrScheme that works around these problems. However, it incurs some disadvantages of its own:

If, having considered this tradeoff, you still consider it worth using the tool version, read on for a description of how to install the tool. Please note that once you have installed this tool, you should not use the fungraph.ss teachpack, since it duplicates the same functionality. Instead, the only one of our teachpacks you should still use is the oops.ss teachpack, for the object-oriented programming system.

The easiest way to install the tool is to call this web page up in Help Desk (found in the Help menu of DrScheme), rather than in any other web browser, and then click on this link. This will cause Help Desk to offer to download and install the tool. If you agree to this, it will be automatically installed. Note that you have to restart DrScheme in order to have the functional graphics tool available for use. From now on, it will be automatically loaded every time you start DrScheme.

Alternatively, you can download the fungraph.plt package from any web browser and then manually run the setup-plt program (included in the DrScheme distribution) on that package in order to install the tool.


For more information, see the parent web page, or contact Max Hailperin:
Email: max@gustavus.edu
Mathematics and Computer Science Department
Gustavus Adolphus College
800 W. College Avenue
St. Peter, MN 56082
USA
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