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[R-gui] A GUI question

3 messages · Feng,Yang [Ontario], John Fox, James Wettenhall

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Feng,Yang [Ontario]
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Thanks so much, James,

But one thing I'd better make it clearer.

I want to design an user interface, of course, base on GUI tools.
Ideally, it's a frame which contains top menu bar in the top-left area;
output window in the top-right area; and text message (task running
message, error message, or whatever other message) at the whole bottom
area.
going to read those ActiveTcl doc, is there anyway to integrate those
different Tcl/Tk functions within one frame? I bet it may need some
other tools, such as ActiveTcl.

Thank you again, James!

Yang
John Fox
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Dear Yang,

You might take a look at the Rcmdr package with implements an interfact
similar to what you describe (if I understand you right) using the
tcltk package.

I hope this helps,
 John

On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 13:53:13 -0400
"Feng,Yang [Ontario]" <Yang.Feng@ec.gc.ca> wrote:
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John Fox
Department of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/
James Wettenhall
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Hi,
On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Feng,Yang [Ontario] wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
This all sounds possible in Tcl/Tk.  ActiveTcl is not required 
for anything.  It is just a convenient way to install Tcl/Tk and 
the demos, particularly on Windows (but read the license 
agreement carefully if you want to redistribute it!).  I 
certainly don't think you will run into any fundamental Tcl/Tk 
problems in trying to integrate different widgets within one 
frame.  But you might want to read Luke Tierney's 
"Threading and GUI Issues":
http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/~luke/R/thrgui/thrgui.pdf
especially if you are hoping to have different parts of 
your frame updating simultaneously.

Hope this helps,
James