Best way to define an Image variable in racket

Question

Both, the official racket tutorial and the book, "Realm of Racket" suggest using Dr. Racket to load and define images in Racket.

I however am using Geiser (racket-repl) with Emacs. I define images using the

(make-object bitmap% (image-location))

function.

Is this the best way to load an image? Or are there more efficient and easy ways? I ask because I was confronted with this problem.

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 27 '13 at 15:05

If you are already using the 2htdp/image library (which your other SO post suggests), then you may wish to use the bitmap function from the same library. See this section of the documentation for 2htdp/image.

You can use it like this:

#lang racket
(require 2htdp/image)
(define my-image (bitmap "path/to/image.png"))

Best way to define an Image variable in racket

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