Dear gurus: I have a question on how to configure the margin layout on tcl/tk GUI objects like tkcanvas, tkframe or tktoplevel. For example, if I want to leave a larger margin on the left side of the GUI container, which one should I configure, the toplevel or tkcanvas or tkframe? top<-tktoplevel() canvas<-tkcanvas(top, relief=, borderwidth=...) I also find the documentation for all the possible arguments that could be passed to tktoplevel, tkframe, tkcanvas, tk.wm, tkconfigure is not good. I wonder if there are good resource for it... at the very least, I know I need to look at what arguments that tck/tk takes... but I don't have time to go that far. Thanks Hao
John Fox
2007-May-24 21:57 UTC
[R] GUI component Margin on tkcanvas, tkframe or tktoplevel
Dear Hao,> -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch > [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Hao Liu > Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 3:53 PM > To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: [R] GUI component Margin on tkcanvas, tkframe or tktoplevel > > Dear gurus: > > I have a question on how to configure the margin layout on > tcl/tk GUI objects like tkcanvas, tkframe or tktoplevel. > For example, if I want to leave a larger margin on the left > side of the GUI container, which one should I configure, the > toplevel or tkcanvas or tkframe? > > top<-tktoplevel() > canvas<-tkcanvas(top, relief=, borderwidth=...)I've used the borderwidth argument (which, I believe, affects all of the borders) in several places, including to tkframe(). You can try it out and see whether you get the effect you want.> > I also find the documentation for all the possible arguments > that could be passed to tktoplevel, tkframe, tkcanvas, tk.wm, > tkconfigure is not good. I wonder if there are good resource > for it... at the very least, I know I need to look at what > arguments that tck/tk takes... but I don't have time to go that far. >I think that the tcltk package documentation is meant to be used alongside Tcl/Tk documentation. The most useful source that I've found is Welch et al., Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk. I hope this helps, John> Thanks > Hao > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >