Can you show some minimal code showing what you have tried? One possibility is that you are not waiting for the pop-up box to close but returning the (empty) string value immediately, but there could be others. Some code would help us to help you.
-- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. Statistical Data Center Intermountain Healthcare greg.s...@imail.org 801.408.8111 > -----Original Message----- > From: r-sig-gui-boun...@stat.math.ethz.ch [mailto:r-sig-gui- > boun...@stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Ulrike Grömping > Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 6:46 AM > To: r-sig-gui@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: [R-gui] Simple way to ask user for text string with R- > commander plugin ? > > Dear all, > > I am just making my first steps in Rcmdr plugin programming and tcltk, > please bear with me, this may be a very basic question. > > My problem: From within a larger interface within R-commander (tk > notebook with several pages, where the user can make many inputs), I > want to allow interim storage of inputs (as a list within the R > workspace). I want to allow the user to specify a name for this list. > As > this is something people shouldn't have to bother with unless they > decide on storing, I would like the name to be asked in some popup > dialogue. > > I haven't found any standard widgets that are intended for this > purpose, > are there really none ? > > I have therefore written a little dialogue with only one text entry box > and OK and Cancel button. I have so far managed to store the text > entered there (using assign and a fixed storage name), but I haven't > managed to make the dialog return the text or at least an indicator > whether the user pressed Cancel or OK. Rather, the return value from > the > dialogue is always FALSE. > > Any help is appreciated. > > Regards, Ulrike > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-GUI mailing list > R-SIG-GUI@stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-gui _______________________________________________ R-SIG-GUI mailing list R-SIG-GUI@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-gui
