Integrated Development Environments

Allegro Integrated Development Environment for Windows, Linux, and Mac

The IDE is the Allegro CL Integrated Development Environment. It works in concert with a windowing system called Common Graphics.

Allegro's IDE is a general environment for developing applications. Its wide variety of tool windows are "integrated" together by allowing you to invoke any tool on a Lisp object that appears in any other tool.

Features

• A project system for managing an application's files, testing the app within the IDE, and generating its standalone executable.
• In addition to standard widgets (standard buttons, radio buttons, drop-down lists, editable and static text, and many more, the IDE supports additonal powerful widgets, such as
  • Common Graphics Chart Widget. This widget which draws charts. See cg-chart-widget.htm.
  • Common Graphics Grid Widget. A powerful and flexible tool for creating tables
  • Common Graphics Class-grid Widget. A subclass of grid-widget which creates a grid with class slots as column heads and instances as rows. See class-grid.
• Menus are supported, both drop-down and pop-up, with submenus fully supported.
• Other features include:
  • HTML Widget in Common Graphics -- Used by the IDE help facility for better integration.
  • Lisp listeners for evaluating expressions on the fly, a code editor, and an object inspector.
  • Dialogs for tracing function calls, viewing the function stack, locating function definitions and strings, and browsing class hierarchies and methods.
  • An interactive dialog builder that generates the lisp code for creating an application dialog.
  • Handy help such as doc pages for every function and IDE tool, symbol completion and argument lists as you enter code, parenthesis matching and auto-indentation, and keyboard shortcuts for nearly all commands.

Documentation for Common Graphics and the IDE.

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