gWidgets (version 0.0-43)

ggraphics: Constructor for a toolkit specific plot device and a notebook to wrap plots in

Description

If a toolkit provides a graphics device, such as the cairoDevice package does for GTK+ or qtutils for Qt, this constructor makes devices that can then be embedded in other widgets. The notebook interface is one such example.

Usage

ggraphics(width = dpi * 6, height = dpi * 6, dpi = 75, ps = 12, container =
NULL, ..., toolkit = guiToolkit())
ggraphicsnotebook(width=dpi*6, height=dpi*6,dpi=75, container = NULL,..., toolkit = guiToolkit())

Arguments

width

width in pixels of device

height

height in pixels of device

dpi

scale factor for default width and height

ps

pointsize

container

Optional container to attach widget to

...

Passed to add method of container.

toolkit

Which GUI toolkit to use

Details

When multiple graphics devices are present, clicking in the window of one will make that the current device.

The visible<- method makes the object the current device.

The svalue(obj, ..., value) method will save the visible window to the file in value. In gWidgetsRGtk2, if the window has another window clipping part of it, this clipping will be shown. This "hack" is needed, as dev.copy does not currently work for the "cairo" graphic device. (In future versions, there will be support for pdf files within cairo.)

The addhandlerclicked(obj, handler, action, ...) method where handler has first argument h has the additional values h$x and h$y where these are values are returned using "usr" coordinates (see help("par")). (This was in NDC coordinates)

For gWidgetsRGtk2 and gWidgetsQt there is also rubber-band selection implemented. The addHandlerChanged method can be used to call a handler when the selection is completed. The x and y components of h record the lower left and upper right points of the rectange. See the example for how this can do something similar to "brushing".

Examples

win <- gwindow("Graphics example")
ggraphics(ps=6, container=win)
hist(rnorm(100))

## This is for gWidgetsRGtk2  (along with cairoDevice) or qtutils
library(gWidgets)
options(guiToolkit="RGtk2") ## "Qt"

w <- gwindow("brush example", visible=FALSE)
g <- ggroup(cont=w)
tbl <- gtable(mtcars, cont=g, filter.FUN="manual")
size(tbl) <- c(300, 500)
gg <- ggraphics(cont=g)
visible(w) <- TRUE

makePlot <- function(ind) {
  plot(mpg ~ wt, mtcars)
  if(!missing(ind) && any(ind)) 
    points(mpg ~ wt, mtcars[ind,], cex=2, pch=16, col="red")
}

ID <- addHandlerChanged(gg, handler=function(h,...) {
  x <- h$x; y <- h$y

  ind <- (mtcars$wt >= x[1]) & (mtcars$wt <= x[2]) &
         (mtcars$mpg >= y[1]) & (mtcars$mpg <= y[2])

  ## udpate graphic and data frame
  makePlot(ind) 
  if(any(ind))
    visible(tbl) <- ind
})