On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Martin Maechler wrote: > >>>>> "BertG" == Berton Gunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>>> on Wed, 30 Mar 2005 10:09:38 -0800 writes: > > BertG> If you are on Windows and want to go GUI, see > BertG> ?choose.files, ?winMenuAdd, ?winDialog, ?select.list > > with the big drawback that it will only work on Windows.
I don't think that a `big' drawback if you `want to go GUI', as GUI conventions are so different between platforms (and tcltk being different from the `native' one on each platform). But we are beginning to attempt to add platform-independent wrappers to GUI widgets. > As Uwe says below, it depends on your context; > for relative simple things, however please consider a portable > solution, using > menu(), readline(), .. > > BTW, menu() has been improved in R 2.1.0 (alpha --> please test!), > and is now connected with select.list() which should work on all > platforms (and uses tcltk on Linux when available). To be a bit more specific, menu() has a 'graphics' argument that uses a listbox on Windows, MacOS or tcltk (where available). select.list() works on all platforms, graphically as for menu(graphics=TRUE), otherwise in text mode. I intend to add a tcltk-based version of choose.files(). (One of the problems with tcltk is that its widgets are OS-specific, and getting select.list to choose a reasonable height tooks ages: there needs to a fudge factor of 3 pixels/line on Unix and 1 pixel/line on Windows.) -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
