Class

Summary

The class display-pane is a pane that displays several lines of text.

Package

capi

Superclasses

titled-object
simple-pane

Initargs

:text

A string or a list of strings to be displayed.

Accessors

display-pane-text

Description

The text passed to a display pane can be provided either as a single string containing newlines, or else as a list of strings where each string represents a line.

There are several classes which can display text, as follows:

title-pane

Displays a single line of text.

display-pane

Displays multiple lines of text.

text-input-pane

Inputs a single line of text.

editor-pane

Inputs multiple lines of text.

Example

(capi:contain (make-instance

               'capi:display-pane

               :text 

                 '("One" "Line" "At" "A" "Time...")))

(setq dp (capi:contain

          (make-instance 

           'capi:display-pane

           :text

           '("One" "Line" "At" "A" "Time...")

           :visible-min-height

           '(:character 5))))

(capi:apply-in-pane-process 

 dp #'(setf capi:display-pane-text) 

 '("Some" "New" "Text") dp)

See also

editor-pane
text-input-pane
title-pane