NODGUI

“No Drama GUI”

Common Lisp bindings for the Tk GUI toolkit.

important notes

you need TK version 9 to run this code

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
  • openGL frame
  • …
• tklib-derived widgets:
  • calendar
  • notify-window (a bit buggy, unfortunately)
  • 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;
• bordeaux-threads;
• cl-colors2;
• cl-opengl;
• cl-ppcre-unicode;
• cl-unicode;
• sdl2;
• sdl2-ttf;
• clunit2;
• esrap;
• flexi-streams;
• jpeg-turbo;
• named-readtables;
• parse-number;
• pngload;
• zpng.

All of the above libraries are available on quicklisp.

C Libraries

• libsdl2 https://www.libsdl.org/
• turboJpeg (high level api for libjpeg-turbo) https://www.libjpeg-turbo.org/
• opengl headers

TCL/TK libraries (optional)

• TKlib https://core.tcl-lang.org/tklib/home
• tkimg https://sourceforge.net/projects/tkimg/
• tcllib https://www.tcl.tk/software/tcllib/

Installing

1. install the tk interpreter (example on a Debian system follows)

   # apt-get install tk
       

2. optionally install tklib

   # apt-get install tklib
       

3. optionally install tcllib

   # apt-get install tcllib
       

4. optionally install tkimg

   # apt-get install libtk-img
       

5. install libsd2

   # apt-get install libsdl2-dev
       

6. install opengl

   # apt-get install libg-dev
       

7. install libturbojpeg

   # apt-get install libturbojpeg0-dev
       

8. open a REPL and type

   (ql:quickload "nodgui")
       

9. try it!

   (nodgui.demo:demo)
       

   also try the minigame, it is fun!

   (asdf:make nodgui/game)
   (main::main)
       

Documentation

please follow this link for documentation and news.

License

This software is Copyright © cage.

Derived from:

• © Peter Herth;
• © Thomas F. Burdick;
• © Cadence Design Systems;
• © Daniel Herring.

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.

This library uses code from other authors see the file ./LICENSES.org for 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.org) for more information.

Acknowledgment

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