[R-gui] Tktable on Mac OSX with X11, systemWindowBody color

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

James Wettenhall <wettenhall at wehi.edu.au> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm doing some testing of my R/TclTk application on Mac OSX with 
> Apple X11 (based on Xfree86), (with Tcl/Tk installed via the 
> Apple Developer Tools) and I've come across a problem 
> when trying to use the table widget in Tktable:
> 
> This works fine in wish (the Tcl/Tk interpreter) :
> % package require Tktable
> % toplevel .tt
> % table .tt.table1
> % pack .tt.table1
> 
> But when I try it in R (even when using the low-level .Tcl(...) 
> interface which should be similar to wish:
> 
> > library(tcltk)
> > addTclPath("/Library/Tcl")
> > .Tcl("package require Tktable")
> > .Tcl("toplevel .tt")
> > .Tcl("table .tt.table1")
>   Error ...
>     [tcl] unknown color name "systemWindowBody".
> 
> "grep systemWindowBody *" in the Tktable package directory 
> revealed just one reference to it, in the binary file, 
> libTktable2.8.dylib
> I don't have the Tcl/Tk source handy and I couldn't find 
> systemWindowBody in the R source or in the tcltk 
> R package source.

Beats me, but you might try a query on comp.lang.tcl. Presumably, wish
is somehow loading the system colors on startup, and this doesn't
happen with the R/Tcl interpreter. 

BTW, have you tried the tkAqua stuff?

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