1 CAPI Reference Entries

interpret-description

Generic Function

Summary

The generic functioninterpret-description converts an abstract description of a layout's children into a list of the children's geometry objects.

Syntax

interpret-description layout description interface

Description

The generic functioninterpret-description translates an abstract description of the layout's children into a list of those children's geometry objects.

For example,column-layout expects as its description a list of items where each item in the list is either the slot-name of the child or a string which should be turned into a title pane. This is the default handling of a layout's description, which is done by calling the generic functionparse-layout-descriptor to do the translation for each item.

Compatibility Note

In LispWorks 3.1, this macro and all of its variable names were in thecapi-layouts package. They have been moved into theCAPI package for simplicity.