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CLOG - The Common Lisp Omnificent GUI

David Botton [email protected]

License BSD 3-Clause License

View the HTML Documentation:

https://rabbibotton.github.io/clog/clog-manual.html

The Common Lisp Omnificent GUI, CLOG for short, uses web technology to produce graphical user interfaces for applications locally or remotely. CLOG can take the place, or work alongside, most cross-platform GUI frameworks and website frameworks. The CLOG package starts up the connectivity to the browser or other websocket client (often a browser embedded in a native template application.)

STATUS: CLOG is complete and all work is on higher order additions, such as full desktop over the web, database tools,etc. See below for some enhacements being worked on. CLOG is actually based on GNOGA, a framework I wrote for Ada in 2013 and used in commercial production code for the last 8+ years, i.e. the techiniques CLOG uses are solid and proven.

CLOG is being actively extended daily. Check the github discussion boards for the latest.

Some potential applications for CLOG:

  • Cross-platform GUIs and Reports
  • Secure websites and complex interactive web applications
  • Mobile software
  • Massive multiplayer online games
  • Monitoring software for embedded systems
  • A fun way to teach programming and advanced multi-tasking parallel programming techniques. (CLOG is a parallel GUI)
  • And the list goes on

The key to CLOG is the relationship it forms with a Browser window or Browser control compiled to native code. CLOG uses websockets for communications and the browser to render a GUI that maintains an active soft realtime connection. For most CLOG applications all programming logic, events and decisions are done on the server which can be local, or remote over the web.

CLOG is developed on an M1 MacBook with ECL and SBCL, it is tested fairly regulary with SBCL on Linux, Windows and Intel MacBook. It should in theory work on any system with Quicklisp and CLACK.

CLOG is in Quicklisp (ql:quickload :clog), but you may want to live on the bleeding edge and use Ultralisp or clone the github repo into your ~/common-lisp directory (or other quicklisp/asdf findable directory):

cd ~/common-lisp
git clone https://github.com/rabbibotton/clog.git

To load this package and work through tutorials (assuming you have Quicklisp configured.)

Note: If using portacle for Windows you will need to update Quicklisp use (ql:update-dist "quicklisp") You will also likely need to copy the sqlite3 dll from https://www.sqlite.org/download.html to portacle\win\lib

  1. Start emacs then M-x slime
  2. In the REPL, run:
CL-USER> (ql:quickload :clog)
CL-USER> (clog:run-tutorial 1)

Tip for Windows WSL linux user. Create a symbolic link from wslview to xdg-open in /usr/local/bin so that run-tutorial uses the windows browser.

To see where the source, tutorial and demo files are:

CL-USER> (clog:clog-install-dir)

You can the run the demos with:

CL-USER> (ql:quickload :clog)
CL-USER> (clog:run-demo 1)

The clog-db-admin tool can be run with:

CL-USER> (ql:quickload :clog/tools)
CL-USER> (clog-tools:clog-db-admin)

You can also open a "clog-repl" window in your browser to play from the common-lisp repl:

CL-USER> (in-package clog-user)
CLOG-USER> (clog-repl)
CLOG-USER> (setf (background-color *body*) "beige")
CLOG-USER> (create-div *body* :content "Hello World!")

The clog-repl URL is http://127.0.0.1/repl body will always refer to the last access of that URL.

To open a browser with the CLOG manual:

CL-USER> (clog:open-manual)

Work your way through the tutorials. You will see how quick and easy it is to be a CLOGer.

Here is a sample CLOG app:

(defpackage #:clog-user               ; Setup a package for our work to exist in
  (:use #:cl #:clog)                  ; Use the Common Lisp language and CLOG
  (:export start-tutorial))           ; Export as public the start-tutorial function

(in-package :clog-user)               ; Tell the "reader" we are in the clog-user package


;; Define our CLOG application
(defun on-new-window (body)           ; Define the function called on-new-window
  "On-new-window handler."            ; Optional docstring to describe function

  (let ((hello-element                ; hello-element is a local variable that
                                      ; will be bound to our new CLOG-Element
      
      ;; This application simply creates a CLOG-Element as a child to the
      ;; CLOG-body object in the browser window.

      ;; A CLOG-Element represents a block of HTML (we will later see ways to
      ;; directly create buttons and all sorts of HTML elements in more 
      ;; lisp-like ways with no knowledge of HTML or JavaScript. 
      (create-child body "<h1>Hello World! (click me!)</h1>")))

    (set-on-click hello-element      ; Now we set a function to handle clicks
          (lambda (obj)              ; In this case we use an anonymous function
            (setf (color hello-element) "green")))

   (run body))) ; Keep our thread alive until connection closes
                ; and prevent garbage collection of our CLOG-Objects
                ; until no longer needed.
            
;; To see all the events one can set and the many properties and styles that
;; exist, refer to the CLOG manual or the file clog-element.lisp


(defun start-tutorial ()   ; Define the function called start-tutorial
  "Start tutorial."        ; Optional docstring to describe function

  ;; Initialize the CLOG system
  (initialize #'on-new-window)
  ;; Set the function on-new-window to execute
  ;; every time a browser connection to our app.
  ;; #' tells Common Lisp to pass the function
  ;; to intialize and not to execute it.


  ;; Open a browser to http://12.0.0.1:8080 - the default for CLOG apps
  (open-browser))

Work in progress: (Add an enhancement request if you want to see a specific feature not yet covered.)

Tutorial Summary

Demo Summary

Tool Summary

  • clog-db-admin - SQLite3 admin tool

Template Summary

clog-gui-template.lisp - Basic CLOG-GUI app

High Order Extensions to CLOG

  • clog-gui - Desktop over the web

    • Menus
    • Windowing system
    • Modal windows, Keep-on-top windows
    • File Load / Save dialogs
    • Alert, Input and Confirmation dialogs
    • Form dialogs

  • clog-web - Webpage creation

    • Auto column layouts
    • 12 Point Grid System layouts
    • Content containers
    • Panels
    • Sidebar menus
    • Compositor containers
    • Menus
    • Alerts
    • Forms

(See FUTURE.md for future plans)


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