Dear Daniel, Try
tkbind(table1, "<Button-1>", function(){ res <- try(tclvalue(tkindex(table1, "active")), silent=TRUE) if (inherits(res, "try-error")) print (NULL) else print(res) }) I put in the calls to print() so that you could see how it works. I hope this helps, John ----------------------------- John Fox, Professor McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario Canada L8S 4M4 Web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox > -----Original Message----- > From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Dalthorp, > Daniel > Sent: April 29, 2016 1:42 PM > To: r-help@R-project.org (r-help@r-project.org) <r-help@r-project.org> > Subject: [R] tcltk: click and return table cell index > > I'm struggling mightily with what should be a simple task...when a user clicks > on a cell in a tcltk table widget, I need to know which cell was clicked. > > One idea that gives a cryptic error: > tkbind(table1, "<Button-1>", function(x, y){ > tcl(table1, "index", x, y) > } > > # x, y give pixel coordinates; "index" should give cell coordinates, but > format > must be correct > > I get an error message: > > wrong # args: should be ".25.1 index <index> ?row|col?". > > To which I respond, "Yes, I know I have the format wrong, but how can I make > sense of THAT?" > > Does anyone know a simple fix? > > Much appreciated! > > -Dan > > -- > Dan Dalthorp, PhD > USGS Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center Forest Sciences Lab, Rm > 189 > 3200 SW Jefferson Way > Corvallis, OR 97331 > ph: 541-750-0953 > ddalth...@usgs.gov > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting- > guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.