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how to set the position and size of the select.list window

8 messages · Uwe Ligges, Duncan Murdoch, wu sz +1 more

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Hello,

I use "select.list" to obtain a window of select items, but how can I
set the position and size of this window?

Thank you!
shengzhe
2 days later
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Hello,

I use "select.list" to obtain a window of select items, but how can I
set the position and size of this window?

Are there any functions which are used to maximize and minimize the
window of R Console?

Thank you!
shengzhe
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wu sz wrote:

            
You cannot fo windows from select.list and R console, AFAIK, but you can 
do for windows() devices using windows() and brintToTop(), for example.

Uwe Ligges
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Uwe Ligges wrote:
That's a typo:  it's bringToTop().  Another function which could be used 
to do this is getWindowsHandle, along with C level programming to the 
Windows API.  I haven't looked into this, so it's possible the UI 
library we use will get confused, but it should be possible to send 
Windows messages to those handles.

We do have longstanding bugs with the maximized/minimized status being 
overridden by various reset commands.  I tracked down some of these 
once, but didn't get all of them (and did introduce some new bugs).  I 
don't have the energy to fix the rest.

Duncan Murdoch
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Thanks for the answer from Uwe Ligges and Duncan Murdoch !

if any function could do the opposite action of bringToTop()?

Are there any introductory and detailed "tcltk" documents or help
files or books for using this package in R ?

shengzhe

2005/7/5, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca>:
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On 7/5/2005 12:12 PM, wu sz wrote:
What is the opposite?  There isn't such a thing defined in the Windows 
API.  If you want to do anything in the API, then just grab the handle, 
and try it.
The tcltk documentation is (in Windows) available in R_HOME/Tcl/doc.  If 
you want something like a tutorial, you'll need to look on the web or in 
a library or bookstore.

Duncan Murdoch
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Thanks for your quick reply!

the "opposite" I mean is to take a window to the bottom of the window
stack and stay at the bottom. This should be the reverse action of
bringToTop().

shengzhe

2005/7/5, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca>:
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On 7/5/05, wu sz <r.shengzhe at gmail.com> wrote:

            
Do a google search for   tcltk examples   and look at the first
hit.  That page in turn links to many tcltk examples and the last
link is not an example but a link to 'Other sources...' of information.