[R] tcltk tkwidget(..."table")

[peter dalgaard]

> On 21 Jan 2016, at 00:25 , Dalthorp, Daniel <ddalthorp at usgs.gov> wrote:
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> Thanks, Peter. 
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> I'm sure that's right, but it requires knowing: (1) that there's something called the "width subcommand", and (2) how to format the call to that command/subcommand.
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Yes, there's a fair amount of that going on with the tcltk interface. You need to both grasp the rules for passing arguments to the underlying Tcl command, and know how to find and read the Tcl/Tk documentation. Once you're up to speed on those issues it's not all that hard to find stuff in (for the present case), say, http://tktable.sourceforge.net/tktable/doc/tkTable.html

The situation may be unfortunate, but the alternative is for "someone" to sit down an convert all relevant Tcl/Tk documentation to R help files.

-pd 


> I was able to do it eventually but only after a few hours of effort searching the web for help.
> 
> E.g. with a table (called table1) with 3 columns and want to set widths to 30, 5, and 5:
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> colwidths<-c(30, 5, 5)
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> for(i in 1:3) {
>   tcl(table1, "width", i - 1, colwidths[i])
> }
> 
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> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 3:07 PM, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On 19 Jan 2016, at 20:48 , Dalthorp, Daniel <ddalthorp at usgs.gov> wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone know a simple way to create a tcltk table with columns of
> > varying widths?
> 
> Create a table, then set the width of the columns with the width subcommand?
> 
> -pd
> 
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> pathName width ?col? ?value col value ...? If no col is specified, returns a list describing all cols for which a width has been set. If col is specified with no value, it prints out the width of that col in characters (positive number) or pixels (negative number). If one or more col-value pairs are specified, then it sets each col to be that width in characters (positive number) or pixels (negative number). If value is default, then the col uses the default width, specified by -colwidth.
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> > -Dan
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> Dan Dalthorp, PhD
> USGS Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center
> Forest Sciences Lab, Rm 189
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> ph: 541-750-0953
> ddalthorp at usgs.gov
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-- 
Peter Dalgaard, Professor,
Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
Phone: (+45)38153501
Office: A 4.23
Email: pd.mes at cbs.dk  Priv: PDalgd at gmail.com