-----Original Message-----
From: r-sig-gui-bounces@stat.math.ethz.ch
[mailto:r-sig-gui-bounces@stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Peng Liu
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 3:31 PM
To: r-sig-gui@stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: RE: [R-gui] tcltk MDI
Dear John,
Your Rcmdr gives me a good framework of R GUI. Those over 10
libraries on which Rcmdr depends represent a good packing of
existing R functions.
I am sorry that I did not clarify what MDI I mean. I did not
expect to open an Tcltk sub-window within current R MDI GUI.
Probably, that needs to recompile GraphApp. What I hope to
have is, for example, Rcmdr itself can be a MDI environment.
Since I am absolutely a newbie to Tcl, I am not available to
figure it out now. So I tried to find some existing example
to start with. The ActiveTcl does not have such an example.
But I found one named mkWidgets, written by Michael Kraus.
You may find the sourceforge page at:
http://mkextensions.sourceforge.net/
Unfortunately, I have no idea about how to use that one
through r-tcltk.
I just began to have interest on R GUI several days ago.
After these days, I choose to begin with R-Tcl/Tk. Because it
might the most rapid way to turn R into something like S+ or
JMP. Moreover,
1) Programming based on GraphApp seems to not portable.
2) Using wxWindows through Python does not seem efficient to
me. Anyway, I
did not run any benchmarking. And wrapping wxWidget via
Connect method
needs solid C++ experience to write a S language parser.
3) I was not available to compile RGTk on Windows.
Therefore, currently, in order to rapidly make R have an S+
or JMP like GUI, R-Tcl/Tk is the best choice. However,
current R-Tcl/Tk examples given by Peter and James are all in
dialog-window-style. Therefore, I am looking for some widgets
like mkWidgets, and wish to know how to use it through r-tcl/tk.
Cheers,
Peng
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, John Fox wrote:
Dear Peng,
There is a problem with Tk windows staying on top of the MDI. For a
GUI based on the tcltk package, you might want to take a
Rcmdr package.
Regards,
John
-----Original Message-----
From: r-sig-gui-bounces@stat.math.ethz.ch
[mailto:r-sig-gui-bounces@stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Peng Liu
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 1:03 PM
To: r-sig-gui@stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: [R-gui] tcltk MDI
Dear R tcltk Designers,
I am wondering whether there is a MDI (Multiple Document
Interface) example of using r-tcltk on Windows platform. I just
begin to use r-tcl/tk. I feel that MDI would be more familiar to
Windows users.
It would be great to begin with a MDI example and work