Hi everybody, I am trying to write a simple progress display based on a tcltk toplevel. My first approach was to use the progressBar widget from the BWidget library but since this is not available on every system (missing on at least almost all windows systems, I guess...) I wanted to have a backup there. So my second strategy was to use a simple toplevel with a label and update the tclvariable assigned to it. This works nicely on windows systems but on my linux box (Suse10) the label is not updated on every round of iteration but rather once the iterator finishes.
tt <-tktoplevel() tkwm.geometry(tt, "250x140") prog <- tclVar("0") label <- tklabel(tt, textvariable=prog) tkgrid(label) for(i in 1:50) { tmp <- rnorm(1e+05) tclvalue(prog) <- i*2 } When I combine both approaches and add the label to a toplevel that already contains the progress bar updating the label works: tt <-tktoplevel() tkwm.geometry(tt, "250x140") prog <- tclVar("0") label <- tklabel(tt, textvariable=prog) progBar <- tkwidget(tt, "ProgressBar", variable=prog) tclRequire("BWidget") tkgrid(progBar) tkgrid(label) for(i in 1:50) { tmp <- rnorm(1e+05) tclvalue(prog) <- i*2 } Is there a way to explicitly rerender a tcltk toplevel? There must be one since the ProgressBar widget causes this to happen, or am I wrong? Or is there another way I could make this work? Hope someone can help me here, Florian PS: sessionInfo() Version 2.3.0 Under development (unstable) (2006-02-20 r37405) x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu attached base packages: [1] "grid" "tools" "tcltk" "stats" "graphics" "grDevices" [7] "utils" "datasets" "methods" "base" other attached packages: prada RColorBrewer Biobase "1.9.2" "0.2-3" "1.9.18" -- Florian Hahne Abt. Molekulare Genomanalyse (B050) Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ) Im Neuenheimer Feld 580 D-69120 Heidelberg phone: 0049 6221 424764 fax: 0049 6221 422399 web: www.dkfz.de/mga ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel