[R] tcltk: Difficulties creating menus

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 11:44:22PM +0200, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
> Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> writes:
[...] 
> Variables need special handling. You cannot just link to an R variable

Ah, yes, I modified / extended the tkttest example, but forgot that here.

> The R interface would be closer to the Tcl:
> 
> library(tcltk)
> tclvar$color<-"blue"
> tt <- tktoplevel()
> tkpack(mb <- tkmenubutton(tt, text="Color"))
> m <- tkmenu(mb)
> tkconfigure(mb,menu=m)
> for ( i in c("red", "blue", "green"))
>    tkadd(m, "radio", label=i, variable="color", value=i)
 
Excellent. I had looked at tkmenu and tkadd but not figured out the
tkconfigure piece in between. Many thanks. 

> (And I was just getting to this bit for the Rnews paper that Kurt has
> been nagging me for. Thanks...)

So there will be more documentation and examples? Even better :)

Thanks, Dirk

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