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12.3.3 An example pinboard object

To create your own pinboard objects, the class drawn-pinboard-object is provided, which is a pinboard-object that accepts a display-callback to display itself. The following example creates a new subclass of drawn-pinboard-object that displays an ellipse.

(defun draw-ellipse-pane (gp pane
                             x y
                             width height)
  (with-geometry pane
    (let ((x-radius
           (1- (floor %width% 2)))
          (y-radius
           (1- (floor %height% 2))))
      (gp:draw-ellipse 
       gp
       (1+ (+ %x% x-radius))
       (1+ (+ %y% y-radius))
       x-radius y-radius
       :filled t
       :foreground 
       (if (> x-radius y-radius) 
           :red 
         :yellow)))))
 
(defclass ellipse-pane
     (drawn-pinboard-object)
  ()
  (:default-initargs
   :display-callback 'draw-ellipse-pane
   :visible-min-width 50
   :visible-min-height 50))
 
(contain
 (make-instance 'ellipse-pane)
 :best-width 200
 :best-height 100)

Figure 12.7 An ellipse-pane class

The with-geometry macro is used to set the size and position, or geometry, of the ellipse drawn by the draw-ellipse-pane function. The fill color depends on the radii of the ellipse - try resizing the window to see this. See the LispWorks CAPI Reference Manual for more details of drawn-pinboard-object .

Now that you have a new ellipse-pane class, you can create instances of them and place them inside layouts. For instance, the example below creates nine ellipse panes and place them in a three by three grid.

(contain
 (make-instance
  'grid-layout
  :description
  (loop for i below 9
        collect
        (make-instance 'ellipse-pane))
  :columns 3)
 :best-width 300
 :best-height 400)

Figure 12.8 Nine ellipse-pane instances in a layout

 


CAPI User Guide (Unix version) - 30 Aug 2011

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