Question

TclTk is working fine in R, it’s just that I can see the widgets being placed on the window as it is being built. Is there a way to hide the window, and only show it once it is built? Paste the following into R and you’ll see the window filling up. That’s what I don’t want user to see (if possible). Thanks.

require(tcltk)
dlg = tktoplevel()
# command to hide window ?
for (i in 1:10) {
    l = list()
    for (i in 1:20) l[[i]]=tkbutton(dlg,text="SO")
    do.call(tkgrid,l)
}
# command to show window now it is built ?
tkwait.window(dlg)
tkdestroy(dlg)

Answer 1

I have the following pattern in gWidgetstcltk:

library(tcltk)
tclServiceMode(FALSE)
win <- tktoplevel()
tkwm.state(win,"withdrawn") 
tclServiceMode(TRUE)

## ... do your thing then:
tkwm.state(win,"normal")