[R-gui] Editor in R

[John Fox]

Dear James,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-sig-gui-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch 
> [mailto:r-sig-gui-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of 
> James Wettenhall
> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 10:48 PM
> To: Peter Dalgaard
> Cc: Søren Højsgaard; r-sig-gui at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R-gui] Editor in R
> 
> 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.
> 

The Rcmdr package works fine when Rgui runs in SDI mode. Of course, it would
be nice to solve the problem of Tk windows in MDI mode as well.

Regards,
 John

> 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...
> 
> Regards,
> James
> 
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