transparent-type {RGtk2} | R Documentation

## Transparent types in RGtk2

### Description

A transparent type in RGtk2 is a non-primitive type passed between the user and the API as an ordinary R object (usually a list with a defined structure).

### Details

The RGtk2 documentation defines the public structure of every object. Some of these have been tagged as being transparent, indicating that the R programmer need not obtain an external object but rather simply create the analagous structure in R. Transparent types are usually simple types that would be created inline in C code for convenience, instead of invoking a function with a large number of arguments. RGtk2 emulates this in R.

Usually these structures are constructed as R lists, with optionally named elements. The lists elements are matched up to structure fields according to the same logic as function calls to function definitions (see `match.call`).

### Author(s)

Michael Lawrence

### See Also

`GParamSpec` `GtkFileFilterInfo` `GtkTargetEntry` `AtkAttribute`

`GtkSettingsValue` `GClosure` `GType`

`GtkStockItem` `GtkItemFactoryEntry` `GtkAllocation` `GdkAtom` `GTimeVal`

`PangoRectangle` `GdkRectangle` `AtkAttributeSet` `GdkRgbCmap` `GdkKeymapKey` `GdkGCValues` `GdkGeometry`

`GdkPoint` `GdkSegment` `GdkColor` `GdkNativeWindow` `GError` `GdkWindowAttr` `GdkTrapezoid`

`GtkActionEntry` `GtkToggleActionEntry` `GtkRadioActionEntry` `CairoPath` `CairoGlyph`

`CairoPathData` `AtkTextRectangle` `AtkTextRange` `GdkSpan` `GdkTimeCoord`

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