{ (define LIBNAME "Animated Images")
  (include "head.tinc") }

<p>The teachpack provides two kinds of functions. The first four allow
students to simulate a small world of animated drawings and games: 
<menu>
<li><code>{(idx big-bang)} : Number Number Number World -> true</code><br>
    <code>(big-bang width height n w)</code>
   creates and shows a width x height canvas, 
   starts the clock, 
   makes it tick every n seconds, 
   and makes w the first world

<li><code>{(idx on-tick-event)} : (World -> World) -> true</code><br>
   <code>(on-tick-event tock)</code> means that DrScheme must call <code>tock</code>
   on the current world every time the clock ticks; it uses the result as the next world 

<li><code>{(idx on-key-event)}  : (World KeyEvent -> World) -> true</code><br>
   <code>(on-key-event change)</code> means that DrScheme must call
   <code>change</code> on the current world and a (representation of the)
   keyevent for every keystroke the programmer (user of the computer) makes; it uses
   the result as the next world

<pre>
<code>
   ;; A KeyEvent is one of: 
   ;; -- Char (char?)
   ;; -- Symbol (symbol?)
</code>
   When the Keyevent is a char, the programmer (user of the computer) has hit an
   alphanumeric key. Symbols such as <code>'left</code>, <code>'right</code>,
   <code>'up</code>, <code>'down</code>, <code>'release</code> denote arrow keys
   or the events of releasing a key on the keypad. 
</pre>

<li><code>{(idx on-redraw)} : (World -> Image) -> true</code><br>
   <code>(on-tick-event world->image)</code> means that DrScheme 
   calls <code>world->image</code> whenever the canvas must be redrawn; the
   result is displayed in the teachpack's canvas 

<li><code>{(idx end-of-time)} : String u Symbol -> World</code><br> When DrScheme
   evaluates <code>(end-of-time)</code>, it stops the clock and displays the
   given string or symbol; no further tick events, key events, or redraw events
   take place until the world is created again.  </menu></p>

<p>The rest are functions for creating scenes:
<menu>
<li><code>{(idx nw:rectangle)}   : Number Number Mode Color -> Image</code><br>
   <code>(nw:rectangle width height mode color)</code>
   creates a width x height rectangle, solid or outlined, 
   with its anchor in the NW corner

<li><code>{(idx empty-scene)} : Number Number -> Scene</code><br>
   <code>(empty-scene width height)</code>
   creates a width x height "scene" (frame with origin in NW)

<li><code>{(idx place-image)} : Image Number Number Scence -> Scene</code><br>
   <code>(place-image image x y scene)</code>
   places image at (x,y) into scene; (x,y) are comp. graph. coordinates
   
<li><code>{(idx run-movie)}   : (Listof Image) -> true </code><br>
   <code>(run-movie loi)</code>
   shows the list of images in loi, time-delayed
</menu></p>

<p>Finally, the teachpack provides all the functions that image.ss provides. </p>

{(include "foot.tinc")}