glabel {gWidgets} | R Documentation

## Constructors for label widget

### Description

This constructor produces a widget to display a line or multipline lines of text.

For some toolkits, the text can be marked up.

An option is available so that the displayed text can be edited.

### Usage

    glabel(text = "", markup = FALSE, editable = FALSE, handler = NULL,
    action = NULL, container = NULL, ..., toolkit = guiToolkit())

### Arguments

`text` | Text to show in the label or button. For buttons, if this text matches a stock icon name, an icon is shown as well
`markup` | Logical indicating if text for a label uses markup
`editable` | Logical. If TRUE, then the label's text can be set by clicking on the label and filling in the edit box.
`handler` | Handler called on a click event
`action` | Passed to handler
`container` | Optional container to attach widget to.
`...` | Passed to `add` method of container
`toolkit` | Which GUI toolkit to use

### Details

The `svalue()` method returns the value of the widget. For a label, this is the text as a single string (which may not include a "\n" for newlines if not supported by the toolkit).

The `svalue<-()` method can be used to set the value of the widget. For labels and buttons, value with length greater than one are pasted together collapsed with "\n".

The `addhandlerclicked` method specifies a handler to be called on click events.

Although in some toolkits, labels are meant to hold static text, gWidgets treats label widgets like other widgets allowing the user to bind handlers to mouse clicks. For labels, if `editable=TRUE` is specified, clicking on the text allows one to edit the label's value overriding the click handler in the process. However, the `addhandlerchanged` handler can be given to respond to the text after it has been chnaged.

### Examples

    ## Not run:
       glabel("a label", container=TRUE)
       glabel("Click me to edit label", editable=TRUE, container=TRUE)
       glabel("Click me for a message", container=TRUE,
       handler=function(h,...) {cat("Hi\n")})
    ## End(Not run)

[Package gWidgets version 0.0-39 Index]