nodgui

NODGUI

"No Drama GUI"

Common Lisp bindings for the Tk GUI toolkit.

important 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.

Features

• 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

Themes

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.

Dependency

Programs

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

Lisp libraries

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

All of the above libraries are available on quicklisp.

TCL/TK libraries (optional)

• TKlib
https://core.tcl-lang.org/tklib/home

• tkimg
https://sourceforge.net/projects/tkimg/

Installing

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)

Documentation

please follow this link for documentation and news.

License

This software is Copyright (c) 2003-2010 Peter Herth 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.

Themes

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) for more information.

Acknowledgment

My (cage) deep thanks to Tim Holliefield , for all the suggestions and help about implementing the widgets styles management.