[Rd] closing View windows after multiple View(x) crashes

[Ben Bolker]

   I'm using Gnome.

   Ben

Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> We have found elsewhere that the need to use XSync is very dependent on 
> the window manager. What manager were you using?
> 
> I'll add the call in any case.
> 
> On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Bill Dunlap wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Ben Bolker wrote:
>>
>>>    That works like a charm.  Thanks!
>>>
>>>    Ben Bolker
>>
>> Good.  Here is the patch I used.  (I didn't send it
>> earlier because my code still had a bunch of Rprintf
>> calls in it to track the event loop activity.
>>
>> Index: src/modules/X11/dataentry.c
>> ===================================================================
>> --- src/modules/X11/dataentry.c    (revision 46139)
>> +++ src/modules/X11/dataentry.c    (working copy)
>> @@ -1881,6 +1881,7 @@
>> #endif
>>     XDestroyWindow(iodisplay, DE->iowindow);
>>     /* XCloseDisplay(iodisplay); */
>> +    Rsync(DE);
>> }
>>
>> #define USE_Xt 1
>>
>> Valgrind reports a slew of memory leaks when R closes
>> after using View(), but it didn't show any use of freed
>> or uninitialized memory after that change.
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>>
>> Bill Dunlap
>> Insightful Corporation
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>>
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