[R-SIG-Mac] cocoa packages

[Jan de Leeuw]

That's good news. One way to get rid of the remaining vestiges of X11  
is to
get rid of Tcl/Tk alltogether and allow people to write interfaces to  
packages
in Cocoa (with a Cocoa Rcmdr as an extreme version). I have been
asking Duncan for RObjC or RCocoa, and at some point in time there
actually was some form of RObjC, but it got lost in the intricate mazes  
of the
Omega project.

On Oct 26, 2004, at 4:02 AM, Byron Ellis wrote:

> Hi all, a bit inspired this evening. Managed (with a small change to  
> SHLIB and INSTALL to make it recognize .m files) to successfully build  
> a small proof-of-concept package that
>
> 1) installs some extra menus (and items) into the main menu bar
> 2) attach those menu items to a controller object inside the package
> 3) locate and instantiate a NIB located within the package in response  
> to a menu call.
>
> Its very simple code, email me and I'll send you the somewhat ugly  
> package as it stands (it ain't pretty).
>
> I think it could be useful for adding S-PLUS-like functionality to the  
> R GUI. Maybe for use in things like introductory statistics courses  
> (or Computational Biology courses). On the whole, a lot prettier than  
> Tcl/Tk and with some more work we could probably write selector  
> targets in R (a la CamelBones or PyObjC).
>
> Its 4am, good night
>
> (BTW, Stefano, I was working on adding the navigation buttons when  
> this occurred to me. I promise :-) )
>
>
> ---
> Byron Ellis (ellis at stat.harvard.edu)
> "Oook" -- The Librarian
>
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