[Rd] Crash when embedding R X11 windows

Thomas Friedrichsmeier thomas.friedrichsmeier at ruhr-uni-bochum.de
Tue Nov 21 13:53:16 CET 2006


Dear R developers,

On Tuesday 07 November 2006 15:26, Thomas Friedrichsmeier wrote:
> Does this seem like a valid fix? Should I provide more info?

I'll take no answer to mean "We'd like to see a test case". You'll find one 
attached. Instructions on compilation / usage are given at the top of the 
source file.

Embedding an R X11 window will crash the corresponding R process (tested with 
R 2.4.0, and R devel), while other applications can be embedded just fine, 
this way. Refer to my last mail for a patch and explanation.

In case the attachment does not get through (I hope I've chosen a good 
MIME-type this time, though), it is also available at:
http://rkward.sourceforge.net/temp/embed.cpp

Regards
Thomas Friedrichsmeier
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/***************************************************************************
                          embed.cpp  -  description
                             -------------------
Simple test case to embed the first X 11 Window found with a title starting
with the given string using QXEmbed under KDE.

Compilation:
Here these lines will compile the test case:
# moc embed.cpp > embed.moc
# gcc -I /usr/include/qt3/ -I /usr/include/kde/ -lqt-mt -lkdeui embed.cpp -o embed
Obviously, you may have to adjust the paths

Usage:
1) In an R console, create an X11 device
2) Run this program, click "Capture"

 ***************************************************************************/

#include <kapplication.h>
#include <kcmdlineargs.h>
#include <kaboutdata.h>
#include <kmainwindow.h>

#include <qxembed.h>
#include <qstring.h>
#include <qdialog.h>
#include <qpushbutton.h>
#include <qlineedit.h>
#include <qlayout.h>
#include <qlabel.h>

#include <X11/X.h>
#include <X11/Xlib.h>

// function below is a slightly adapted copy from http://lists.trolltech.com/qt-interest/1999-10/msg00224.html
// this could be tweaked a little more, since for instance we know we're only looking for toplevel windows
Window Window_With_Name (Display *dp, Window top, const QString &name) {
	Window *children, dummy;
	unsigned int nchildren;
	int i;
	Window w=0;
	char *window_name;
	
	if (XFetchName (dp, top, &window_name)) {
		if (QString (window_name).startsWith (name)) return (top);
	}
	
	if (!XQueryTree (dp, top, &dummy, &dummy, &children, &nchildren)) return (0);
	
	for (i=0; i<nchildren; i++) {
		w = Window_With_Name (dp, children[i], name);
		if (w) break;
	}
	if (children) XFree ((char *) children);
	return (w);
}

class EmbedDialog : public KMainWindow {
Q_OBJECT
public:
	EmbedDialog () : KMainWindow (0) {
		// create the window
		QVBoxLayout *layout = new QVBoxLayout (this);
		QLabel *label = new QLabel ("Enter start of title of window to capture:", this);
		layout->addWidget (label);

		caption_edit = new QLineEdit (this);
		caption_edit->setText ("R Graphics");
		layout->addWidget (caption_edit);

		QPushButton *button = new QPushButton ("Capture", this);
		connect (button, SIGNAL (clicked ()), this, SLOT (embedRGraphics ()));
		layout->addWidget (button);
		show ();
	};
public slots:
	void embedRGraphics () {
		Window w = Window_With_Name (qt_xdisplay (), qApp->desktop ()->winId (), caption_edit->text ());
		if (!w) {
			qDebug ("No such window found");
			return;
		} else {
			qDebug ("embedding window id %p", w);
		}

		// capture
		QXEmbed *capture = new QXEmbed (0, 0, Qt::WDestructiveClose);
		capture->setProtocol (QXEmbed::XPLAIN);
		capture->embed (w);
		capture->show ();

		qDebug ("done embedding", w);
	};
private:
	QLineEdit *caption_edit;
};

static KCmdLineOptions options[] = { { 0, 0, 0 } };

int main (int argc, char *argv[]) {
	KAboutData aboutdata ("embedtest", "embedtest", "0.1", "a test case", KAboutData::License_GPL, "(c) 2006", 0);
	KCmdLineArgs::init (argc, argv, &aboutdata);

	KApplication app;
	new EmbedDialog ();

	return app.exec ();
}

#include "embed.moc"
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