[R-gui] tcltk MDI

[John Fox]

Dear Peng Liu,

It's true that the standard widget set for Tcl/Tk is limited. I
intentionally restricted myself to these widgets since they are all that's
available with the standard installation of R under Windows. To get a
broader set of widgets, you can install ActiveTcl for Windows.

With respect to making an MDI application using Tcl/Tk, if that's possible,
I don't know how to do it.

Regards,
 John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-sig-gui-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch 
> [mailto:r-sig-gui-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Peng Liu
> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 3:31 PM
> To: r-sig-gui at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: RE: [R-gui] tcltk MDI
> 
> Dear John,
> 
> Your Rcmdr gives me a good framework of R GUI. Those over 10 
> libraries on which Rcmdr depends represent a good packing of 
> existing R functions.
> 
> I am sorry that I did not clarify what MDI I mean. I did not 
> expect to open an Tcltk sub-window within current R MDI GUI. 
> Probably, that needs to recompile GraphApp. What I hope to 
> have is, for example, Rcmdr itself can be a MDI environment.
> 
> Since I am absolutely a newbie to Tcl, I am not available to 
> figure it out now. So I tried to find some existing example 
> to start with. The ActiveTcl does not have such an example. 
> But I found one named mkWidgets, written by Michael Kraus. 
> You may find the sourceforge page at:
> http://mkextensions.sourceforge.net/
> Unfortunately, I have no idea about how to use that one 
> through r-tcltk.
> 
> I just began to have interest on R GUI several days ago. 
> After these days, I choose to begin with R-Tcl/Tk. Because it 
> might the most rapid way to turn R into something like S+ or 
> JMP. Moreover,
> 1) Programming based on GraphApp seems to not portable.
> 2) Using wxWindows through Python does not seem efficient to 
> me. Anyway, I
>    did not run any benchmarking. And wrapping wxWidget via 
> Connect method
>    needs solid C++ experience to write a S language parser.
> 3) I was not available to compile RGTk on Windows.
> Therefore, currently, in order to rapidly make R have an S+ 
> or JMP like GUI, R-Tcl/Tk is the best choice. However, 
> current R-Tcl/Tk examples given by Peter and James are all in 
> dialog-window-style. Therefore, I am looking for some widgets 
> like mkWidgets, and wish to know how to use it through r-tcl/tk.
> 
> Cheers,
> Peng
> 
> On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, John Fox wrote:
> 
> > Dear Peng,
> >
> > There is a problem with Tk windows staying on top of the MDI. For a 
> > GUI based on the tcltk package, you might want to take a 
> look at the 
> > Rcmdr package.
> >
> > Regards,
> >  John
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: r-sig-gui-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
> > > [mailto:r-sig-gui-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Peng Liu
> > > Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 1:03 PM
> > > To: r-sig-gui at stat.math.ethz.ch
> > > Subject: [R-gui] tcltk MDI
> > >
> > > Dear R tcltk Designers,
> > >
> > > I am wondering whether there is a MDI (Multiple Document
> > > Interface) example of using r-tcltk on Windows platform. I just 
> > > begin to use r-tcl/tk. I feel that MDI would be more familiar to 
> > > Windows users.
> > > It would be great to begin with a MDI example and work 
> out a R-GUI 
> > > similar to S+ or JMP.
> > >
> >
> >
> 
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