[R-gui] Editor in R

[Peter Dalgaard]

James Wettenhall <wettenhall at wehi.edu.au> writes:

> Peter, Søren and others,
> 
> On Wed, 6 Apr 2004, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> > However, the shortest route would seem to be using the tcltk
> > interface. There is already a rudimentary scripting widget, which you
> 
> One thought regarding use of Tcl/Tk for an editor is that it 
> would be much more attractive to Windows users if someone could 
> solve the problem of Tk windows repeatedly hiding themselves 
> behind the RGui window (coded in GraphApp).  For Windows users 
> of my R/TclTk application, I recommend they minimize RGui or 
> make it very small in the corner of the screen.  For RCmdr, 
> minimizing RGui is not recommended, as there are important things 
> displayed in the RGui window.
> 
> I'd be happy to investigate this a bit if anyone can give me any 
> clues.  But maybe it's too hard?  Maybe GraphApp will be replaced 
> some time soon anyway...

I still have some hope for the "toplevel .bar -use 0xfeedbabe"
approach. How are your C++ skills? There's some intriguing stuff 
at http://home.t-online.de/home/dshepherd/tkview.htm

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