Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20030506141715.01e38068@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca>
Date: 2003-05-06T18:24:10Z
From: John Fox
Subject: bitmap images in tcltk
Dear R-help list members,
I'm writing a package using tcltk. Thanks to Peter Dalgaard's excellent
work on the tcltk package, almost everything has gone very smoothly. I'm
stymied, however, by the following problem:
I want to incorporate a bitmap image, stored as an xbm file, in a widget.
To take a simple example,
top <- tktoplevel()
tkgrid(tklabel(top, bitmap="@file.xbm", fg="red"))
will work as long as file.xbm is in the current directory; alternatively, I
could specify the path to this file. The problem is that I can't figure out
a reliable way of predicting (or discovering) where the bitmap file will
reside when my package is installed.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks,
John
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John Fox
Department of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M4
email: jfox at mcmaster.ca
phone: 905-525-9140x23604
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