Class

Summary

The list view pane is a choice that displays its items as icons and text in a number of formats.

Note: list-view is not implemented on Cocoa

Package

capi

Superclasses

list-panel

Initargs

:view

Specifies which view the list view pane shows. The default is :icon.

:subitem-function

Returns additional information to be displayed in report view.

:subitem-print-functions

Used in report view to print the additional information.

:image-function

Returns an image for an item

:state-image-function

Returns a state image for an item.

:image-lists

A plist of keywords and image-list objects.

:columns

Defines the columns used in report view

:auto-reset-column-widths

Determines whether columns automatically resize. Defaults to :all.

:auto-arrange-icons

Determines whether icons are automatically arranged to fit the size of the window.

:use-large-images

Indicates whether large icons will be used (generally only if the icon view will be used). Defaults to t.

:use-small-images

Indicates whether small icons will be used. Defaults to t.

:use-state-images

Indicates whether state images will be used. Defaults to nil.

:large-image-width

Width of a large image. Defaults to 32.

:large-image-height

Height of a large image. Defaults to 32.

:small-image-width

Width of a small image. Defaults to 16.

:small-image-height

Height of a small image. Defaults to 16.

:state-image-width

Width of a state image. Defaults to small-image-width .

:state-image-height

Height of a state image. Defaults to small-image-height .

Accessors

list-view-view
list-view-subitem-function
list-view-subitem-print-functions
list-view-image-function
list-view-state-image-function
list-view-columns
list-view-auto-reset-column-widths
list-view-auto-arrange-icons

Description

The list view inherits its functionality from choice. In many ways it may be regarded as a kind of enhanced list panel, although its behavior is not identical. It supports single selection and extended selection interactions.

The list view displays its items in one of four ways, determined by the value in the view slot. An application may use the list view pane in just a single view, or may change the view between all four available views using (setf list-view-view).

See the notes below on using both large and small icon views.

In all views, the text associated with the item (the label) is returned by the print-function , as with any other choice.

• The icon view — :icon.

In this view, large icons are displayed, together with their label, positioned in the space available. See also auto-arrange-icons , below.

• The small icon view — :small-icon.

In this view, small icons are displayed, together with their label, positioned in the space available. See also auto-arrange-icons , below.

• The list view — :list.

In this view, small icons are displayed, arranged in vertical columns.

• The report view — :report.

In this view, multiple columns are displayed. A small icon and the item's label is displayed in the first column. Additional pieces of information, known as subitems, are displayed in subsequent columns.

To use the view :report, columns must specify a list of column specifiers. Each column specifier is a plist, in which the following keywords are valid:

:title

The column heading.

:width

The width of the column in pixels. If this keyword is omitted or has the value nil, the width of the column is automatically calculated, based on the widest item to be displayed in that column.

:align

May be :left, :right or :center to indicate how items should be aligned in this column. The default is :left. Only left alignment is available for the first column.

If auto-arrange-icons is true, then the icons are automatically arranged to fit the size of the window when the view is showing :icon or :small-icon. The default value of auto-arrange-icons is nil.

The subitem-function is called on the item to return subitem objects that represent the additional information to be displayed in the subsequent columns. Hence, subitem-function should normally return a list, whose length is one less than the number of columns specified. Each subitem is then printed in its column using the appropriate subitem print function. subitem-print-function may be either a single print function, to be used for all subitems, or a list of functions: one for each subitem column.

Note that the first column always contains the item label, as determined by the choice-print-function .

The image-function is called on an item to return an image associated with the item. It can return one of the following:

A pathname or string

This specifies the filename of a file suitable for loading with load-image. Currently this must be a bitmap file.

A symbol

The symbol must have been previously registered by means of a call to register-image-translation.

An image object

As returned by load-image.

An image locator object

Allowing a single bitmap to be created which contains several button images side by side. See make-image-locator for more information. On Microsoft Windows, this also allows access to bitmaps stored as resources in a DLL.

An integer

This is a zero-based index into the list view's image list. This is generally only useful if the image list is created explicitly. See image-list for more details.

The state-image-function is called on an item to determine the state image, an additional optional image used to indicate the state of an item. It can return one of the above, or nil to indicate that there is no state image. State images may be used in any view, but are typically used in the report and list views.

If image-lists is supplied, it should be a plist containing the following keywords as keys. The corresponding values should be image-list objects.

:normal

Specifies an image-list object that contains the large item images. The image-function should return a numeric index into this image-list.

:small

Specifies an image-list object that contains the small item images. The image-function should return a numeric index into this image-list.

:state

Specifies an image-list object that contains the state images. The state-image-function should return a numeric index into this image-list

If both the large icon view (icon view) and one or more of the small icon views (small icon view, list view, report view) are to be used, special considerations apply.

The image lists must be created explicitly, using the :image-lists initarg, and the image-function must return an integer. Take care to ensure that corresponding images in the :normal and :small image lists have the same numeric index.

Returning pathnames, strings or image-locators from the image function cause the CAPI to create the image-lists automatically; however, if large and small icon views are mixed, this will lead to incorrect icons (or no icons) being displayed in one or other view.

Notes

1. list-view is not implemented on Cocoa.
2. For some applications multi-column-list-panel will suffice instead of list-view.

See also

image-list
list-panel
make-image-locator
multi-column-list-panel
image-list, image-set and image-locator
Working with images