From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Mon Mar 10 14:32:31 2008
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:32:31 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Rd] Bindings for updated widgets in Tk 8.5.x
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0803100915260.7453@gannet.stats.ox.ac.uk>

Tk 8.5.x is starting to trickle down to Linux distributions and the next 
release of R for Windows will ship with 8.5.1 (the binary builds of 
R-devel already do).

According to http://www.tkdocs.com the new themed widget set has much to 
recommend it, and it certainly looks much better on MacOS and Windows.

I've added bindings to package tcltk for R-devel, and taken a quick look 
at what would be needed to convert package Rcmdr to make use of them.  in 
many uses they are a drop-in replacement (e.g. ttkbutton for tkbutton), 
but some of the customizations (fg="red") have different names 
(foreground="red", which also works for tkbutton) and others are replaced 
by the theme.

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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[Rd] Bindings for updated widgets in Tk 8.5.x
Prof Brian Ripley