Hello,
I implemented a GUI (using gWidgets) from which I'd like to start a long
process by clicking a button. This process prints out status messages
which the user should be able to see in the R console during the
computation. But at the moment clicking the button freezes the GUI until
the process is finished and all output is printed at the end. Is there a
way how to do this? The process can take several hours and during that
time I need to make the GUI available for other tasks.
I found a similar post on R-help from last year where John Verzani
posted the following test code:
reallySlowFunction = function(n=20) {
for(i in 1:n) {
cat("z")
Sys.sleep(1) }
cat("\n")
}
w <- gwindow("test")
g <- ggroup(cont=w, horizontal=FALSE)
b <- gbutton("click me", cont=g,handler = function(h,...)
reallySlowFunction())
r <- gradio(1:3, cont=g, handler = function(h,...) print(svalue(h
$obj)))
I cannot figure out why my GUI freezes and this one not but
here again, the output of reallySlowFunction is printed at the very end
after the process finishes. Would anybody know how to solve it?
Thanks,
Hana
[R-gui] Process control in gWidgets
4 messages · j verzani, Hana Sevcikova, Wayne.W.Jones at shell.com
Hana Sevcikova <hana <at> cs.washington.edu> writes:
Hello, I implemented a GUI (using gWidgets) from which I'd like to start a long process by clicking a button. This process prints out status messages which the user should be able to see in the R console during the computation. But at the moment clicking the button freezes the GUI until the process is finished and all output is printed at the end. Is there a way how to do this? The process can take several hours and during that time I need to make the GUI available for other tasks.
Dear Hana, This post was followed up with https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2008-February/154249.html where a combination of gtkEventsPending() and gtkMainIteration() is used to update the GUI during a computation. This could work for you if a) you are using gWidgetsRGtk2 through gWidgets and b) you can add this within your long computation. If that doesn't work out, let me know. --John
I found a similar post on R-help from last year where John Verzani
posted the following test code:
reallySlowFunction = function(n=20) {
for(i in 1:n) {
cat("z")
Sys.sleep(1) }
cat("\n")
}
w <- gwindow("test")
g <- ggroup(cont=w, horizontal=FALSE)
b <- gbutton("click me", cont=g,handler = function(h,...)
reallySlowFunction())
r <- gradio(1:3, cont=g, handler = function(h,...) print(svalue(h
$obj)))
I cannot figure out why my GUI freezes and this one not but
here again, the output of reallySlowFunction is printed at the very end
after the process finishes. Would anybody know how to solve it?
Thanks,
Hana
Thank you very much, John. I am indeed using gWidgetsRGtk2 but I was hoping to make my GUI independent of the specific toolkit. But there is probably no easy solution. Even with the gtkEventsPending() and gtkMainIteration() I don't get the output into the R-console as the computation runs, rather at the very end. Please let me know if you get other ideas how to solve it. Thanks, Hana
jverzani wrote:
Hana Sevcikova <hana <at> cs.washington.edu> writes:
Hello, I implemented a GUI (using gWidgets) from which I'd like to start a long process by clicking a button. This process prints out status messages which the user should be able to see in the R console during the computation. But at the moment clicking the button freezes the GUI until the process is finished and all output is printed at the end. Is there a way how to do this? The process can take several hours and during that time I need to make the GUI available for other tasks.
Dear Hana, This post was followed up with https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2008-February/154249.html where a combination of gtkEventsPending() and gtkMainIteration() is used to update the GUI during a computation. This could work for you if a) you are using gWidgetsRGtk2 through gWidgets and b) you can add this within your long computation. If that doesn't work out, let me know. --John
I found a similar post on R-help from last year where John Verzani
posted the following test code:
reallySlowFunction = function(n=20) {
for(i in 1:n) {
cat("z")
Sys.sleep(1) }
cat("\n")
}
w <- gwindow("test")
g <- ggroup(cont=w, horizontal=FALSE)
b <- gbutton("click me", cont=g,handler = function(h,...)
reallySlowFunction())
r <- gradio(1:3, cont=g, handler = function(h,...) print(svalue(h
$obj)))
I cannot figure out why my GUI freezes and this one not but
here again, the output of reallySlowFunction is printed at the very end
after the process finishes. Would anybody know how to solve it?
Thanks,
Hana
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Hi Hana,
I use the rpanel package to generate GUIs for R.
Here is an example of what you are trying to do with the rpanel package:
(p.s. make sure buffered output is switched off in the Rgui).
reallySlowFunction = function(panel,n=20) {
for(i in 1:n) {
cat("z")
Sys.sleep(0.5)
cat("\n")
}
return(panel)
}
library(rpanel)
# Create an rpanel and add the button "Simulate" to it.
panel <- rp.control()
rp.button(panel, action = reallySlowFunction, title = "Simulate")
Regards,
Wayne
-----Original Message-----
From: r-sig-gui-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
[mailto:r-sig-gui-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch]On Behalf Of Hana Sevcikova
Sent: 11 August 2009 07:30
To: jverzani
Cc: r-sig-gui at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R-gui] Process control in gWidgets
Thank you very much, John. I am indeed using gWidgetsRGtk2 but I was
hoping to make my GUI independent of the specific toolkit. But there is
probably no easy solution. Even with the gtkEventsPending() and
gtkMainIteration() I don't get the output into the R-console as the
computation runs, rather at the very end.
Please let me know if you get other ideas how to solve it.
Thanks,
Hana
jverzani wrote:
Hana Sevcikova <hana <at> cs.washington.edu> writes:
Hello, I implemented a GUI (using gWidgets) from which I'd like to start a long process by clicking a button. This process prints out status messages which the user should be able to see in the R console during the computation. But at the moment clicking the button freezes the GUI until the process is finished and all output is printed at the end. Is there a way how to do this? The process can take several hours and during that time I need to make the GUI available for other tasks.
Dear Hana, This post was followed up with https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2008-February/154249.html where a combination of gtkEventsPending() and gtkMainIteration() is used to update the GUI during a computation. This could work for you if a) you are using gWidgetsRGtk2 through gWidgets and b) you can add this within your long computation. If that doesn't work out, let me know. --John
I found a similar post on R-help from last year where John Verzani
posted the following test code:
reallySlowFunction = function(n=20) {
for(i in 1:n) {
cat("z")
Sys.sleep(1) }
cat("\n")
}
w <- gwindow("test")
g <- ggroup(cont=w, horizontal=FALSE)
b <- gbutton("click me", cont=g,handler = function(h,...)
reallySlowFunction())
r <- gradio(1:3, cont=g, handler = function(h,...) print(svalue(h
$obj)))
I cannot figure out why my GUI freezes and this one not but
here again, the output of reallySlowFunction is printed at the very end
after the process finishes. Would anybody know how to solve it?
Thanks,
Hana
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