CAPI User Guide, Liquid Common Lisp Version 5.0

Copyright and Trademarks

Preface

Assumptions

Conventions used in the manual

A Description of the Contents

The Reference Manual

1 - Introduction to the CAPI

1.1 - What is the CAPI?

1.2 - The history of the CAPI

1.3 - The CAPI model

1.3.1 - CAPI Classes

2 - Getting Started

2.1 - Loading the CAPI

2.2 - Creating a window

2.3 - Linking code into CAPI elements

3 - Creating Common Windows

3.1 - Generic properties

3.1.1 - Scroll bars

3.1.2 - Background and foreground colors

3.1.3 - Fonts

3.2 - Specifying titles

3.2.1 - Title panes

3.2.2 - Specifying titles directly

3.2.3 - Display panes

3.3 - Displaying and entering text

3.3.1 - Text input panes

3.3.2 - Editor panes

3.4 - Stream panes

3.4.1 - Collector panes

3.4.2 - Interactive streams

3.4.3 - Listener panes

3.5 - Miscellaneous button elements

3.5.1 - Push buttons

3.5.2 - Check buttons

3.5.3 - Radio buttons

4 - Choices

4.1 - Choice classes

4.1.1 - Push button panels

4.1.2 - Radio button panels

4.1.3 - Check button panels

4.2 - List panels

4.2.1 - List interaction

4.2.2 - Extended selection

4.2.3 - Deselection, retraction, and actions

4.2.4 - Selections

4.3 - Graph panes

4.4 - Option panes and drop-down list boxes

4.5 - Menu components

4.6 - General properties of choices

4.6.1 - Interaction

4.6.2 - Selections

4.6.3 - Callbacks

5 - Laying Out CAPI Panes

5.1 - Organizing panes in columns and rows

5.2 - Other types of layout

5.2.1 - Grid layouts

5.2.2 - Simple layouts

5.2.3 - Pinboard layouts

5.3 - Combining different layouts

5.4 - Constraining the size of layouts

5.5 - Advanced Pane Layouts

5.5.1 - Switchable layouts

5.5.2 - Tab layouts

5.5.3 - Dividers

6 - Creating Menus

6.1 - Creating a menu

6.2 - Grouping menu items together

6.3 - Creating individual menu items

6.4 - The CAPI menu hierarchy

6.5 - Disabling menu items

7 - Defining Interface Classes

7.1 - The define-interface macro

7.2 - An Example interface

7.2.1 - How the example works

7.3 - Adapting the example

7.3.1 - Adding menus

7.4 - Connecting an interface to an application

8 - Prompting for Input

8.1 - Some simple dialogs

8.2 - Prompting for values

8.2.1 - Prompting for strings

8.2.2 - Prompting for integers

8.2.3 - Prompting for an item in a list

8.2.4 - Prompting for files

8.2.5 - Prompting for lisp objects

8.3 - Creating your own dialogs

8.3.1 - Using display-dialog

8.3.2 - Using popup-confirmer

9 - Creating Your Own Panes

9.1 - Displaying graphics

9.2 - Receiving input from the user

9.3 - Creating graphical objects

9.3.1 - The implementation of graph panes

9.3.2 - An example pinboard object

Index

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