YstokWidgets Professional Edition

YstokWidgets is a GUI library for rendering text and graphics, editing text information constructing pane layouts and window classes and mixins. It implements a kind of framework and facilitates building desktop applications.

The library is Lisp implementation-specific and targeted at LispWorks®, a Common Lisp development system for Macintosh, Windows, and Linux platforms. The library is based on CAPI. Its Windows version does not require any third-party DLL or OLE components. The library was actually tested only on Windows.

Pane classes

data-pane- family
Maintaining a kind of "changed" state, calling update-callback; highlighting text that matches some item of the choice collection.
file- and directory-pane
Text pane equipped with a completion button for opening an addition chose file/directory modal dialog.
image-pane
Rendering external and internal images.

Layout classes

divided-interface-mixin
Saving/restoring divider position within layouts.
Frames
Helpers and generics for defining frames within an interface.
tab-page
Tab layout add-ons

Window classes

choice-popup-interface
General facility for choosing from a separate interface.
file-interface
Saving various objects or documents in files or database; Most-recently-used feature, common toolbars and menus.
editor-interface
Plain text editor window, much more powerful than Windows Notepad.
history-interface
Saving operation history and navigating through it similar to many LispWorks IDE tools.
log-interface
GUI add-on for customizing trace options and output to the scrollable display pane.
master-interface and slave-interface
Dependent/dependee and master/slave relationship between windows.
settings-dialog
Saving/restoring program settings and user preferences.
wizard-interface
Subclass of progress-dialog-base class, implements a "wizard" or "master" window, which is similar to many GUI-based installers. If allows the user to enter data in step-wise manner screen-by-screen and finally start some complex process.

Menus and toolbars

Date and time support

calendar-popup
Pop-up window displaying one month. The *calendar-orientation* parameter controls the layout of days of one week
:row (USA and UK) or :column (Europe and Russia).
date-pane
Pane equipped with calendar button to invoke the calendar popup.
time-pane
Pane equipped with clock button, which sets the pane value according the the curren time.
time-range-box-mixin
Selecting a time interval or period in a dialog, which contains a couple of data/time panes.
audit-bar
Displaying audit trail information - timestamp and/or person who has modified an object or document.

What is new in version 1.4

Look and feel

Some features of YstokWidgets Professional can be tasted with the trial version of Ystok-Tournament.

Available languages:
English
Russian

We usually provide our customers who program in Lisp with the source code of YstokWidgets Professional under a special license agreement.

The simplified open-source version of this library, or Open Edition, is available at lisp.ystok.ru for free.