(PR#7277) Re: [Rd] strange windows behaviour after changing

[Duncan Murdoch]

I still don't see it.  This is strange -- I'm also using XP SP2.

Duncan Murdoch

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 09:55:55 +0200 (CEST), ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
wrote:

>I can reproduce this in MDI.  Another clue is that as the pager for 
>?merge is opened, the font in the console changes.
>
>The console is still working: commands you type in it are accepted.
>So the issue appears to be that the font in use has been changed
>incorrectly (and it seems that the C code thinks it has been changed in 
>the preferences dialog).
>
>
>On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Duncan Mackay wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> Thanks for your reply. Yes, editing Rconsole worked (problem didn't appear
>> under MDI with lines=16000) after start-up.
>> Simply shrinking and restoring the windows didn't restore functionality - my
>> R console window remained blank and unresponsive (even to Esc's) so I had to
>> shut down R. I was using the MDI interface and my computer is a Toshiba
>> Satellite A10 laptop. 
>> I've just tried editing the Rconsole to switch to SDI, and the problems
>> didn't appear under SDI. 
>> Thanks, Duncan
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk] 
>> Sent: Monday, 11 October 2004 6:04 PM
>> To: duncan.mackay at flinders.edu.au
>> Cc: R-bugs at biostat.ku.dk; r-devel at stat.math.ethz.ch
>> Subject: Re: (PR#7277) Re: [Rd] strange windows behaviour after changing
>> "lines" GUI setting (PR#7277)
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>> 
>> > Doesn't happen for me (on two rather different machines under Windows
>> > XP SP2).  This looks like a Windows GDI refresh problem.  Does editing 
>> > the Rconsole file work?  If so, that is a usable workaround. Does 
>> > minimizing and restoring the windows show the correct contents?
>> 
>> One more thing: was this the MDI or SDI interface?  I only tested SDI.
>> 
>> > On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 duncan.mackay at flinders.edu.au wrote:
>> > 
>> > > Full_Name: Duncan Mackay
>> > > Version: 2.0.0
>> > > OS: WinXP
>> > > Submission from: (NULL) (129.96.120.254)
>> > > 
>> > > 
>> > > > version
>> > >          _              
>> > > platform i386-pc-mingw32
>> > > arch     i386           
>> > > os       mingw32        
>> > > system   i386, mingw32  
>> > > status                  
>> > > major    2              
>> > > minor    0.0            
>> > > year     2004           
>> > > month    10             
>> > > day      04             
>> > > language R       
>> > > 
>> > > I am running the above version of R under WinXP Service Pack 2.
>> > > 
>> > > I have encountered some strange behaviour after changing the "lines"
>> > > setting in the GUI preferences, as follows:-
>> > > 
>> > > "Select Edit/GUI preferences..."
>> > > Change the "lines" setting from 8000 to 16000
>> > > Click "Apply" then "OK"
>> > > Back at the R console, type ?merge
>> > > 
>> > > The "R Help on 'merge'" window appears but is blank???????
>> > > 
>> > > Click back in the R Console window. Now it goes blank ???????????
>> > > 
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>> > > 
>> > 
>> > 
>> 
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