[R-gui] Current R-GUI projects & best graphical toolkits

[Dan Putler]

Hi Philippe and List,

Yes, obveRsive is using the Java-Swing tool kit.

Dan

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On 10/10/2002 at 11:26 AM Philippe Grosjean wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Thank you for those who sended me infos about ongoing R GUI projects.
>I have:
>- CoCoA R GUI: Jan De Leeuw
>- obveRsive woRkbench: Dan Putler & Zed Shaw
>- SPSS-style GUI (planed?): Kurt Hornik
>- SciViews: Philippe Grosjean
>
>Are there any other ones?
>
>For the graphical toolkit, it is certainly time to get a clearer idea of
>which one is the most suitable among Tcl/Tk (+ Tix), Gtk, QT, wxWindows,...
>As far as I know, Peter Dalgaard (with many others) develops Tcl/tk; Duncan
>Temple Lang works on Gtk/Gnome. There are already available libraries
>(including the base R library 'tcltk'). Dan Putler and Zed Shaw recently
>choose Swing. Is this correct? Any suggestions from specialists are
>welcome.
>
>Personnally, I develop SciViews under Windows, using OCXes (most are free
>or
>shipped with Microsoft Visual Studio, but one is commercial -ActiveBar-).
>This is not portable at all. This is not open source at all. But I choose
>it
>for all the functionnalities I got (and indeed, I started the project many
>years ago, when many oher graphical toolkits like Gtk or Qt were in their
>infancy). I consider the current windows implementation of SciViews as a
>prototype to test various GUI architectures. I would definitely be happy to
>get rid of all these M$ D-Com, ActiveX and OCXes, but I need:
>- An advanced text editor with synthax highlighting, "codetips",
>"auto-completion lists", etc... and I got the free CodeMax with CodeSense
>(http://www.ticz.com/homes/users/nlewis/HTML/Software_Development/CodeSense/
>Download/download.htm#uguide) which is wonderful.
>- An integrated and context-sensitive menus/toolbars/docking windows
>system,... and I found ActiveBar
>(http://www.datadynamics.com/activebar/default.htm) very easy to use and
>configure.
>- A spreadsheet,... and I got Formula One (shipped with the free version of
>Borland Delphi) which is very nice.
>- A decent rich text editor with embedded graphs, etc... and I find the
>standard richedit.ocx suitable.
>- A html browser,... and the Internet Explorer ocx is performing well
>(arrghl).
>
>Yes, I know! You want to kill me now! Perhaps, an alternative would be to
>convince me that I will find similar features in other graphical toolkits?
>
>Best,
>
>Philippe Grosjean
>
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