[Rd] AltGr not working in R GUI Script Editor (PR#9430)

[murdoch at stats.uwo.ca]

On 12/24/2006 2:08 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> I do have AltGr (and Slovenian installed).   The issue is that the author 
> of graphapp seems not to have had a 'right menu key' as MSDN call it.
> 
> This was fixed in R 0.9.1 and unfixed in R 2.0.0 by the author of the 
> script editor, who wrote in graphapp/events.c
> 
>  	/* Check for menu control keys. */
>  	/* disabled : Alt-Gr bug*/ /* Re-enabled for the moment, CJ */
> 
> I do now have a proper fix.

Thanks!

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> 
> On Sat, 23 Dec 2006, Zoran Bosnic wrote:
> 
>> Dear Duncan,
>>
>>> I'm  working on an American keyboard, that doesn't have an AltGr key, so it's
>>> hard to test anything.
>>>
>>> Are you familiar enough with Windows internals to work on this and
>>> submit a patch, or do you know someone who is?
>> Unfortunately I am not so familiar with windows internals and cannot remeber of anyone who might help, but I have a solution for you how you could test this.
>>
>> AltGr key can be simulated by pressing left Control+Alt keys together. This works on slovenian keyboards, and I guess it should also work on american, if slovenian input locale is set.
>>
>> I just tested this LeftCtrl+LeftAlt combination in R script editor and behaviour was the same.
>>
>>
>>
>>> One solution would be to add an option to disable handling of shortcut
>>> keys in menus.  There's probably a better solution, but without being
>>> able to test it, I don't think I could find it.
>> Yes, this would also be an option. In fact I was already looking through the menus if there was such setting to remap keyboard shortcuts.
>>
>> Hope my suggestion helps.
>>
>> Best regards, Zoran Bosnic.
>>
>> Zoran Bosnic, M. Sc.
>> Faculty of Computer and Information Science
>> Laboratory of Cognitive Modelling
>> Trzaska ulica 25
>> 1000 Ljubljana
>> Slovenia
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>  From: Duncan Murdoch
>>  To: Duncan Murdoch
>>  Cc: zoran.bosnic at fri.uni-lj.si ; R-bugs at biostat.ku.dk ; r-devel at stat.math.ethz.ch
>>  Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 7:05 PM
>>  Subject: Re: [Rd] AltGr not working in R GUI Script Editor (PR#9430)
>>
>>
>>  On 12/23/2006 1:00 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>>  > On 12/23/2006 6:07 AM, zoran.bosnic at fri.uni-lj.si wrote:
>>  >> Full_Name: Zoran Bosnic
>>  >> Version: 2.4.0
>>  >> OS: Windows XP SP2
>>  >> Submission from: (NULL) (212.235.140.146)
>>  >>
>>  >>
>>  >> This is a problem that occurs in R GUI Script Editor and is connected to Windows
>>  >> regional settings.
>>  >>
>>  >> Since I live in Slovenia, my computer has a keyboard with additional slovenian
>>  >> international characters. I am therefore using Windows XP SP2 with Input
>>  >> Language (=Keyboard Locale, Control Panel/Regional and Language
>>  >> Options/Languages/Details/Input language) set to Slovenian.
>>  >>
>>  >> On slovenian keyboards characters as [, ], {, } are produced by pressing key
>>  >> combinations AltGr+F, AltGr+G, AltGr+B and AltGr+N, respectively. These
>>  >> combinations generally work in all Windows programs and also in R Console.
>>  >> However, R Script editor produces behaves wrongly and causes:
>>  >> AltGr+F to open Find dialog box,
>>  >> AltGr+N to open new Script window.
>>  >
>>  > I see in comments in the source (in
>>  > https://svn.r-project.org/trunk/src/gnuwin32/graphapp/events.c, around
>>
>>  Typo in URL:  should be
>>
>>  https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/gnuwin32/graphapp/events.c
>>
>>  > line 930) that this is a known bug, but I don't know how to fix it.  I'm
>>  > working on an American keyboard, that doesn't have an AltGr key, so it's
>>  > hard to test anything.
>>  >
>>  > One solution would be to add an option to disable handling of shortcut
>>  > keys in menus.  There's probably a better solution, but without being
>>  > able to test it, I don't think I could find it.
>>  >
>>  > Are you familiar enough with Windows internals to work on this and
>>  > submit a patch, or do you know someone who is?
>>  >
>>  > Duncan Murdoch
>>  >
>>  >> Consequentially, it is not possible to type ] and } brackets using slovenian
>>  >> input settings in script editor. Meanwhile, AltGr+G and AltGr+B work fine.
>>  >>
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