I don't recognize your account.
R under Windows has an entry point R_tcldo, which is *private* and (as its
name implies) for use by R with Tcl. There is no documentation that I am
aware of that suggests that it is available to packages, and it is in no
header and not in 'Writing R Extensions'.
Thanks for the information. A little more testing.
With R 2.6.2 on Debian I don't get John's crash on the tkdestroy.
With R 2.6.2 on MS/Windows the "library(tcltk)" causes the gtkWindow
to freeze. The tkdestroy works just fine.
I haven't had a chance to test on the imminent R 2.7.0 yet.
The
Hi Graham,
Your guess is right. The event loop stuff is handled differently on Windows
than on Unix-like OSes. There is a hook, called tcl_do that is hard-coded
into the R Windows GUI. It is called whenever the console is idle. RGtk2 is
able to hook into that to process GTK+ events. The problem is
