Table of Contents

1. General info

1.1 Versions and Compitibility
1.2 Project Home page
1.3 SourceForge Project page
1.4 Documentation
1.5 Download
1.6 Anonymous CVS Access
1.7 Mailing lists
1.8 Bug Tracking

Linking note
Test application
2. Compilation issues

2.1 Static and shared libraries options
2.2 Optimization and Debugging options
2.3 Sub-packages selection and other configuration options

3. Bigloo Common Library

3.1 Introduction
3.2 regex

3.2.1 Regexp Matching
3.2.2 C runtime API

3.3 The GNU DBM interface

3.3.1 Opening and closing the database
3.3.2 Storing and fetching data
3.3.3 Enumerating database entries
3.3.4 Miscellanea

3.4 MzScheme compatibility module
3.5 Dynamic linking library

3.5.1 Types
3.5.2 Procedures

3.6 SRFI-1 List Library
3.7 SRFI-13 String Library

3.7.1 Procedure specifications
3.7.2 Predicates
3.7.3 Constructors
3.7.4 List & string conversion
3.7.5 Selection
3.7.6 Modification
3.7.7 Comparison
3.7.8 Prefixes & suffixes
3.7.9 Searching

3.8 Miscellaneous stuff
3.9 iconv - charset conversion procedures
3.10 Time-related procedures
3.11 cgen - bigloo preprocessor

3.11.1 What is it for?
3.11.2 Why not bigloo foreign interface?
3.11.3 How does it works
3.11.4 cgen command line
3.11.5 Name conversions

3.11.5.1 Defining a type names
3.11.5.2 Defining names of an accessor

3.11.6 Directives
3.11.7 Usage examples

3.12 Advanced afile utility
3.13 Command-line applications support

3.13.1 Termios
3.13.2 The GNU readline library API
3.13.3 Basic Behavior
3.13.4 Custom Functions
3.13.5 Readline Variables
3.13.6 Readline Convenience Functions

3.13.6.1 Selecting a Keymap

3.13.7 The GNU history library API
3.13.8 Initializing History and State Management

3.13.8.1 History List Management
3.13.8.2 Information About the History List
3.13.8.3 Moving Around the History List
3.13.8.4 Searching the History List
3.13.8.5 Managing the History File
3.13.8.6 History Expansion
3.13.8.7 History Variable wrappers
3.13.8.8 History Programming Example

4. Bigloo SQL database interface

4.0.1 Object types
4.0.2 Connection management
4.0.3 Session management

4.0.3.1 Complete example

5. HTTP/CGI support
6. Generic tree interface

6.1 Node attributes
6.2 Node tree navigation
6.3 Node naming and grove lookup
6.4 Other node procedures

7. XML parser (expat interface)

7.1 xml2expat

8. GTK+ interface

8.1 Testing the GTK interface

8.1.1 testgtk program
8.1.2 example programs

8.2 Bigloo-gtk reference

8.2.1 GDK Reference Manual

8.2.1.1 The gdk event object
8.2.1.2 The gdk color object
8.2.1.3 The gdk font object
8.2.1.4 The gdk drawing procedures
8.2.1.5 The gdk pixmap object
8.2.1.6 The gdk window object
8.2.1.7 The gdk GC (graphic context) object
8.2.1.8 The gdk colormap object
8.2.1.9 gdk miscellaneous procedures

8.2.2 Types

8.2.2.1 Introduction to the Type System
8.2.2.2 Basic Concepts
8.2.2.3 Simple Types
8.2.2.4 Enumerations and Flags
8.2.2.5 Callbacks
8.2.2.6 Composite Types

8.2.3 Objects
8.2.4 Signals Overview
8.2.5 Widget Overview

8.2.5.1 The accel group object
8.2.5.2 The accel label widget
8.2.5.3 The alignment widget
8.2.5.4 The arg object
8.2.5.5 The arrow widget
8.2.5.6 The aspect frame widget
8.2.5.7 The bin widget
8.2.5.8 The box widget
8.2.5.9 The handle box widget
8.2.5.10 The button box widget
8.2.5.11 The button widget
8.2.5.12 The calendar widget
8.2.5.13 The check button widget
8.2.5.14 The curve widget
8.2.5.15 The spin button widget
8.2.5.16 The check menu item widget
8.2.5.17 The compound list widget
8.2.5.18 The color selector widget
8.2.5.19 The combo widget
8.2.5.20 The container widget
8.2.5.21 The font selector widget
8.2.5.22 The file selector widget
8.2.5.23 The multi-column tree widget
8.2.5.24 The curve widget
8.2.5.25 The gamma curve widget
8.2.5.26 The dialog widget
8.2.5.27 The drawing area widget
8.2.5.28 The entry widget
8.2.5.29 The editable widget
8.2.5.30 The event box widget
8.2.5.31 The file selection dialog widget
8.2.5.32 The fixed widget
8.2.5.33 The frame widget
8.2.5.34 The gamma widget
8.2.5.35 The horizontal box widget
8.2.5.36 The horizontal button box widget
8.2.5.37 The horizontal paned widget
8.2.5.38 The horizontal ruler widget
8.2.5.39 The horizontal scale widget
8.2.5.40 The vertical scale widget
8.2.5.41 The horizontal scrollbar widget
8.2.5.42 The horizontal separator widget
8.2.5.43 The image widget
8.2.5.44 The input dialog widget
8.2.5.45 The item widget
8.2.5.46 The label widget
8.2.5.47 The list widget
8.2.5.48 The list item widget
8.2.5.49 The menu widget
8.2.5.50 The menu bar widget
8.2.5.51 The menu shell widget
8.2.5.52 The tearoff menu item widget
8.2.5.53 The menu item widget
8.2.5.54 The menu shell widget
8.2.5.55 The misc widget
8.2.5.56 The notebook widget
8.2.5.57 The option menu widget
8.2.5.58 The paned widget
8.2.5.59 The pixmap widget
8.2.5.60 The plug widget
8.2.5.61 The preview widget
8.2.5.62 The progress bar widget
8.2.5.63 The radio button widget
8.2.5.64 The range widget
8.2.5.65 The ruler widget
8.2.5.66 The scale widget
8.2.5.67 The scrollbar widget
8.2.5.68 The scrolled window widget
8.2.5.69 The separator widget
8.2.5.70 The statusbar widget
8.2.5.71 The table widget
8.2.5.72 The tips query widget
8.2.5.73 The text widget
8.2.5.74 The toggle button widget
8.2.5.75 The tool bar widget
8.2.5.76 The tool tips widget
8.2.5.77 The tree widget
8.2.5.78 The tree item widget
8.2.5.79 The vertical box widget
8.2.5.80 The vertical button box widget
8.2.5.81 The viewport widget
8.2.5.82 The vertical paned widget
8.2.5.83 The vertical ruler widget
8.2.5.84 The vertical scrollbar widget
8.2.5.85 The vertical separator widget
8.2.5.86 The base widget
8.2.5.87 The window widget

8.2.6 Utility objects

8.2.6.1 The accelerator table object
8.2.6.2 The adjustment object
8.2.6.3 The GC object
8.2.6.4 The data object
8.2.6.5 The style object

8.2.7 Initialization, exit and other features

8.2.7.1 Initializing and exiting bigloo-gtk
8.2.7.2 Customization of the library
8.2.7.3 Simplified menu creation
8.2.7.4 Simplified tree creation
8.2.7.5 Pop up help mechanism
8.2.7.6 Resource Files
8.2.7.7 Macros defined by all objects

8.2.8 Using bigloo-gtk

8.2.8.1 The simplest bigloo-gtk program
8.2.8.2 Hello world in bigloo-gtk
8.2.8.3 An enhanced hello world
8.2.8.4 Making Hello World II robust

8.2.9 Object internals
8.2.10 Signal internals
8.2.11 Widget internals

9. Bigloo LDAP interface

9.1 API for C library

9.1.1 LDAP types
9.1.2 LDAP connection
9.1.3 LDAP data modifying
9.1.4 LDAP searching
9.1.5 LDAP cache control
9.1.6 LDAP errors handling
9.1.7 LDAP misc utilities

10. Bigloo OpenGL and gtkglarea interface
Concept Index
Type Index
Procedure Index