nodgui

2023-10-21

Lisp bindings for the Tk toolkit

Upstream URL

notabug.org/cage/nodgui

Author

Peter Herth

Maintainer

cage

License

LLGPL
README
NODGUI

1moved to https://codeberg.org/cage/nodgui

2NODGUI

/"No Drama GUI"/

Common Lisp bindings for the Tk GUI toolkit.

2.1important note:

Version 0.4.0 broke the user API, see here for more information about how your code is affected and how to fix it.

2.2Features

  • custom themes
  • more widgets:
    • history-entry
    • autocomplete
    • expanded "text" widget
    • date picker
    • treelist
    • tooltip
    • searchable listbox
    • password entry
  • tklib-derived widgets:
    • calendar
    • notify-window
    • plots and charts: dot-plot, bar-chart…
  • asynchronous main event loop
  • and more

2.3Themes

nodgui supports loading custom ttk themes and ships the "yaru" theme from the ttkthemes collection.

To use a built-in theme other than the "default" one, do:

    (with-nodgui (:theme "yaru")
      (code here))

or use (setf *default-theme* "yaru").

You can see how they look with the demos:

CL-USER> (nodgui.demo:demo :theme "yaru")

You can load any .tcl file describing a theme:

(nodgui:eval-tcl-file "path/to/another/theme.tcl")
(nodgui:use-theme "theme")

See also *themes-directory*.

This currently doesn't work with a few themes using SVG images, but it might be fixed with the release of an upcoming Tcl/Tk version.

3Dependency

3.1Programs

  • TCL/TK interpreter (version >= 8.6)https://www.tcl.tk

3.2Lisp libraries

  • alexandria;
  • cl-ppcre-unicode;
  • esrap
  • clunit2;
  • cl-colors2;
  • named-readtables.

All of the above libraries are available on quicklisp.

3.3TCL/TK libraries (optional)

  • TKlibhttps://core.tcl-lang.org/tklib/home
  • tkimghttps://sourceforge.net/projects/tkimg/

4Installing

  1. install the tk interpreter (example on a Debian system follows)
# apt-get install tk
  1. optionally install tklib
# apt-get install tklib
  1. optionally install tkimg
# apt-get install libtk-img
  1. open a REPL and type
(ql:quickload "nodgui")
  1. try it!
(nodgui.demo:demo)

5Documentation

please followthis link for documentation and news.

6License

This software is Copyright (c) 2003-2010 Peter Herth <herth@peter-herth.de> Portions Copyright (c) 2005-2010 Thomas F. Burdick Portions Copyright (c) 2006-2010 Cadence Design Systems Portions Copyright (c) 2010 Daniel Herring Portions Copyright © cage

The authors grant you the rights to distribute and use this software as governed by the terms of the Lisp Lesser GNU Public License (http://opensource.franz.com/preamble.html), known as the LLGPL.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

6.1Themes

The themes definitions found in the themes/ subdirectory are distributed with many different license, please carefully check the file LICENSE.org in each theme's subdirectory (e.g ./themes/yaru/LICENSE.org) for more information.

7Acknowledgment

My (cage) deep thanks to Tim Holliefield <tholliefield [at] online.de>, for all the suggestions and help about implementing the widgets styles management.

Dependencies (10)

  • alexandria
  • bordeaux-threads
  • cl-colors2
  • cl-jpeg
  • cl-ppcre
  • cl-unicode
  • clunit2
  • esrap
  • named-readtables
  • parse-number

Dependents (2)

  • GitHub
  • Quicklisp