R: Tk widgets

TkWidgets {tcltk}

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Tk widgets

Description

Create Tk widgets and associated R objects.

Usage

tkwidget(parent, type, ...)
tkbutton(parent, ...)
tkcanvas(parent, ...)
tkcheckbutton(parent, ...)
tkentry(parent, ...)
tkframe(parent, ...)
tklabel(parent, ...)
tklistbox(parent, ...)
tkmenu(parent, ...)
tkmenubutton(parent, ...)
tkmessage(parent, ...)
tkradiobutton(parent, ...)
tkscale(parent, ...)
tkscrollbar(parent, ...)
tktext(parent, ...)
tktoplevel(parent=.TkRoot, ...)

Arguments

`parent`	Parent of widget window
`type`	string describing the type of widget desired
`...`	handled via `.Tcl.args`

Details

These functions create Tk widgets. tkwidget creates a widget of a given type, the others simply call tkwidget with the respective type argument.

It is not possible to describe the widgets and their arguments in full. Please refer to the Tcl/Tk documentation.

Examples

## Not run: 
## These cannot be run by examples() but should be OK when pasted
## into an interactive R session with the tcltk package loaded

tt <- tktoplevel()
label.widget <- tklabel(tt, text="Hello, World!")
button.widget <- tkbutton(tt, text="Push",
                          command=function()cat("OW!\n"))
tkpack(label.widget, button.widget) # geometry manager
                                    # see Tk-commands

## Push the button and then...

tkdestroy(tt)
## End(Not run)