Class

Summary

A layout is a simple pane that positions one or more child panes within itself according to a layout policy.

Package

capi

Superclasses

titled-object
simple-pane

Subclasses

simple-layout
grid-layout
pinboard-layout

Initargs

:default

A flag to mark the default layout for an interface.

:description

The list of the layout's children.

:initial-focus

A child of the layout, or its name , specifying where the input focus should be, or nil.

Accessors

layout-description

Description

The layout's description is an abstract description of the children of the layout, and each layout defines its format. Generally, description is a list, each element of which is one of:

• An element, that is an object of type simple-pane or pinboard-object.
• A slot name, where the name refers to a slot in the layout's interface containing an element.
• A string, where the string gets converted to a title-pane or an item-pinboard-object.

Note that pinboard-objects can be used only when the hierarchy contains pinboard-layout.

Some subclasses of layout have different syntax for description , for example grid-layout (and its subclasses row-layout and column-layout) allows arrays too, and it also accepts nil in the description list.

Setting the layout description causes the layout to translate it, and then to layout the new children, adjusting the size of its parent if necessary. The actual translation is done by interpret-description.

A number of default layouts are provided which provide the majority of layout functionality that is needed. They are as follows:

simple-layout

A layout for one child.

row-layout

Lays its children out in a row.

column-layout

Lays its children out in a column.

grid-layout

Lays its children out in an n by m grid.

pinboard-layout

Places its children where the user specifies.

switchable-layout

Keeps only one of its children visible.

initial-focus specifies which child of the layout has the input focus when the layout is first displayed. Panes are compared by cl:eq or capi-object-name. See pane-initial-focus for more information about the initial focus pane..

See also

define-layout
interpret-description
Laying Out CAPI Panes