[R] Floating windows in TCLTK

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Simon.Gatehouse at csiro.au writes:

> Dear anybody dealing with TCLTK on R
> 
> I'm trying, without any success, to get a simple TCLTK window to remain
> floating on top of the RGui and RConsol windows when the later have focus. I
> cannot find reference in the TCKTK documentation and fear that I'm missing
> something quite fundamental. 
> 
> My objective is to make a simple button populated menu to invoke R
> functions. I wish the TCLTK menu to remain on top so that I can manually
> invoke a sequence of functions without restarting the TCLTK menu after each
> invocation. Some of the R functions used have screen interactions in the
> form of locator() and identify()
> 
> Any tips or abbreviated code snippets would be very much appreciated.
> 
> I'm running R in Windows 2000

This kind of thing is notoriously difficult to do on Windows. The
focused application wants pretty badly to be on top. However, a
toplevel Tk window generates an entry in the -whatsitsname- bar at the
bottom of the screen, so it seems that it would be fairly easy to get
your buttons back on top.

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