R help - Oct 2006 - R tcl/tk

Friends:

I am a long-time R user, learning tcl/tk, and am tying myself in knots over
something that should be simple.
  
I want to create a frame and put that frame inside the toplevel frame.

This works (i.e. it places text in col 1, and the corresponding entry box in
column 2) and later frame.2 resides where it should in the toplevel frame.

tkgrid(tklabel(frame.2, text="FACTOR column "), tkentry(frame.2,
textvariable=FACTOR.column.value, width=2),  sticky="e")


This doesn't work because I don't know how to tell tcl that
answer.button1
belongs in frame2:

tkconfigure(answer.button1, variable=buttonValue, value="TRUE")

tkgrid(tklabel(frame.2, text="Question?    yes "), answer.button1,
sticky="e")
                                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I know this can not be as hard as I am making it.

Thanks for the help.

Charles Annis, P.E.

Charles.Annis at StatisticalEngineering.com
phone: 561-352-9699
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"Charles Annis, P.E." <Charles.Annis at
statisticalengineering.com> writes:
> Friends:
> 
> I am a long-time R user, learning tcl/tk, and am tying myself in knots over
> something that should be simple.
>   
> I want to create a frame and put that frame inside the toplevel frame.
> 
> This works (i.e. it places text in col 1, and the corresponding entry box
in
> column 2) and later frame.2 resides where it should in the toplevel frame.
> 
> tkgrid(tklabel(frame.2, text="FACTOR column "), tkentry(frame.2,
> textvariable=FACTOR.column.value, width=2),  sticky="e")
> 
> 
> This doesn't work because I don't know how to tell tcl that
answer.button1
> belongs in frame2:
> 
> tkconfigure(answer.button1, variable=buttonValue, value="TRUE")
> 
> tkgrid(tklabel(frame.2, text="Question?    yes "),
answer.button1,
> sticky="e")
>                                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> I know this can not be as hard as I am making it.
Possibly, but there seems to be some context missing, so I can't quite
grasp what you want to do. It does look a bit suspicious that you
aren't saving the objects generated by tklabel and tkentry though.

In general, the hierarchy between widgets is defined at widget
creation time, so why is there no 

answer.button1 <- tkbutton(frame.2,..whatever..) 

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