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

[Adrian Waddell]

I have written some content about the R bindings to Tcl and Tk:

http://waddella.github.io/loon/learn_R_tcltk.html

And the pack geometry manager

http://adrian.waddell.ch/EssentialSoftware/Rtcltk_geometry.pdf

But if you have no experience with building graphical user interfaces then
you might want to look into a book on Tk. "Effective TCL/TK programming" by
Harrison and McLennan is a good one.

Greetings,

Adrian
On Jan 21, 2016 10:36 PM, "Dalthorp, Daniel" <ddalthorp at usgs.gov> wrote:

> >  Once you're up to speed on those issues...
>
> Any suggestions for getting up to speed on those issues?
>
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> On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 11:46 AM, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > On 21 Jan 2016, at 00:25 , Dalthorp, Daniel <ddalthorp at usgs.gov>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > Thanks, Peter.
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> >
> > 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:
> > >
> > > colwidths<-c(30, 5, 5)
> > >
> > > for(i in 1:3) {
> > >   tcl(table1, "width", i - 1, colwidths[i])
> > > }
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 3:07 PM, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > 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
> > >
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > -Dan
> > > >
> > > >
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> > > > Dan Dalthorp, PhD
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> > > Corvallis, OR 97331
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> > > 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
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> Dan Dalthorp, PhD
> USGS Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center
> Forest Sciences Lab, Rm 189
> 3200 SW Jefferson Way
> Corvallis, OR 97331
> ph: 541-750-0953
> ddalthorp at usgs.gov
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