In the examples directory

The examples/ directory contains some example programs, some of which are quite useful. Binaries can be found in the examples/bin directory.

Here are some notes about the more interesting ones.

• colors Interactively choose a colour in RGB/HLS format
• cursors Show all available mouse cursors
• dndtest Demonstrate tree/list drag and drop, and in-place editing
• editor A simple text editor
• explorer A simple file-system explorer
• fonttest Explore available fonts
• geturl A very useful command-line program for retrieving files over http (rather like wget). Run geturl -? for options.
• lslinks List the HTML links in a web page.
• stock A stock-ticker program. Enter a ticker symbol in the text field and press return, or a company name and select from the drop-down suggestions. Right-click on the ticker symbol to delete it.
• suggest A tongue-in-cheek demo of the SuggestField class, which is a TextField with a popup list offering suggestions.
• browser A simple web browser, built upon the classes in the ipl.browser package, which can render HTML documents.
• flowterm A terminal emulator with a difference - see this page for details
• bus A program to browse a map of the London bus network -see this page for details
• ttexplorer Like explorer above, but uses a TreeTable
• lsxdg A useful program to query the xdg database, as seen by the classes in the xdg package; see also this page.

In the apps directory

The apps/ directory contains some more programs, related specifically to the language. Binaries are found in the main bin directory.

• memorytracker Run an object icon program and show its memory usage (try memorytracker ivib)
• memdebug A program to examine another program’s memory, and check for memory leaks -see this page for details
• ieval A program to interactively evaluate expressions - see this page for details.
• oidoc A program to generate documentation from source files - see this page for details.

• fiximports This useful program takes one or more source files, and rewrites them so that import declarations such as

  import io

  are replaced by a declaration with the imported symbols listed explicitly; for example :-

  import io(Stream, StringStream)

  If you don’t wish to rewrite the file, use the -c option; this outputs the result to stdout, leaving the source file unchanged.

• ivib An interactive gui designer; see the documentation on the gui package for more details.