[R-gui] A GUI question
James Wettenhall
wettenhall at wehi.edu.au
Wed Jul 7 02:33:37 CEST 2004
Hi,
On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Feng,Yang [Ontario] wrote:
> I want to design an user interface, of course, base on GUI tools.
> Ideally, it's a frame which contains top menu bar in the top-left area;
> output window in the top-right area; and text message (task running
> message, error message, or whatever other message) at the whole bottom
> area.
This all sounds possible in Tcl/Tk. ActiveTcl is not required
for anything. It is just a convenient way to install Tcl/Tk and
the demos, particularly on Windows (but read the license
agreement carefully if you want to redistribute it!). I
certainly don't think you will run into any fundamental Tcl/Tk
problems in trying to integrate different widgets within one
frame. But you might want to read Luke Tierney's
"Threading and GUI Issues":
http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/~luke/R/thrgui/thrgui.pdf
especially if you are hoping to have different parts of
your frame updating simultaneously.
Hope this helps,
James
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