At times a user may wish to access the underlying toolkit widget. Although this is not cross-platform, one often has access to many more methods of the object, than through those provided by gWidgets.
Basic S3 method
Get underlying toolkit widget from widget slot. Used internally
method for getWidget
Get underlying toolkit object from block slot
S3 method for getBlock generic
For GWindow, the block is NULL
Get toplevel window containing object
getTopLevel method for components
getToolkitWidget(obj)# S3 method for default
getToolkitWidget(obj)
getWidget(obj)
# S3 method for GComponent
getWidget(obj)
getBlock(obj)
# S3 method for GComponent
getBlock(obj)
# S3 method for GWindow
getBlock(obj)
getTopLevel(obj)
# S3 method for GComponent
getTopLevel(obj)
object