A Tcl/Tk version of the svDialogs input a string or value dialog box — dlg_input.tcltkGUI • svDialogstcltk

Prompt for some data in a modal dialog box.

# S3 method for tcltkGUI
dlg_input(message = "Enter a value", default = "", ..., gui = .GUI)

Arguments

message: The message to display in the dialog box. Use \\n for line break, or provide a vector of character strings, one for each line.
default: The default value in the text box. Single string or NULL.
...: Not used yet.
gui: The 'gui' object concerned by this dialog box.

Value

The string the user wrote in the dialog box.

See also

svDialogs::dlg_input()

Examples

library(svDialogstcltk) # Tcl/Tk dialog boxes are now used by default
if (FALSE) {
# Ask something...
user <- dlg_input("Who are you?", Sys.info()["user"])$res
if (!length(user)) {# The user clicked the 'cancel' button
  cat("OK, you prefer to stay anonymous!\n")
} else {
  cat("Hello", user, "\n")
}
}