[R-SIG-Mac] cocoa packages

[stefano iacus]

Or once iWidgets comes to Cocoa which I think is the plan (Simon?)
stefano

On Oct 26, 2004, at 5:36 PM, Jan de Leeuw wrote:

> 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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