[R-gui] tcltk: "Image" rather than bitmap loaded on tklabel

Dirk Eddelbuettel edd at debian.org
Wed Jul 9 21:19:06 MEST 2003


On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 12:17:23AM +0200, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
> Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> writes:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > How can I display images from external files in tcltk?
> > 
> > In Perl/Tk, I can use the Tk::Photo widget to load a .png graphic file,
> > which then goes into a label or button widget. In R, I only managed to do
> > that with a bitmap which I converted from a .png file. 
> > 
> > Is there a simple way without having to re-code pieces of, say, tkrplot?
> 
> Does "man n photo" get you anywhere?

Hm, "man 3tk photo" doesn't mean that much to me as I never programmed in
tcl itself, but only ever through the Perl and R bindings. 

So no, sorry, that wasn't self-sufficient. 

Regards,  Dirk

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