"John Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Dear Peter,
>
> As you can see from the expression, I didn't use integer division, nor did I
> round() or floor(). Here's my original example, using a monospaced font:
>
> > library(tcltk)
> > top <- tktoplevel()
> > textWindow <- tktext(top, bg="white",
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> From: Peter Dalgaard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 11:27 AM
> To: John Fox
> Cc: 'Peter Dalgaard'; r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch
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"John Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Dear Peter,
>
> (as.numeric(tkwinfo("width", .output$ID))
> - 2*as.numeric(tkcget(.output, borderwidth=NULL)) - 2)/
> as.numeric(tkfont.measure(tkcget(.output, font=NULL), "0"))
>
> (for the text widget .output) appears to do the trick (note, subt
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> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 10:39 AM
> To: Prof Brian Ripley
> Cc: John Fox; r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [Rd] Getting width of Tk text widget via tcltk
>
> Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > 743
> >
> > I could convert pixels to characters, but wonder whether I can get the
> > latter directly.
>
> I suspect you may have some difficulty with the latter, even in a
> monospace font. Notice that 486 is not a multiple of 80, and if that
Brian Ripley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 9:25 AM
> To: John Fox
> Cc: r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [Rd] Getting width of Tk text widget via tcltk
>
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, John Fox wrote:
>
> > Dear list members,
> >
>
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, John Fox wrote:
Dear list members,
Is it possible via a suitable tcltk command to get the *current* width, in
characters, of a Tk text widget that has been resized with the mouse? In the
following code, the reported width of the text widget doesn't change, even
though it has be
Dear list members,
Is it possible via a suitable tcltk command to get the *current* width, in
characters, of a Tk text widget that has been resized with the mouse? In the
following code, the reported width of the text widget doesn't change, even
though it has been resized. I can, however, get the
