[Rd] Mismatch between the Rconsole file and the RGui Configuration editor

[Tomas Kalibera]

On 8/27/22 20:46, Paulo Barata wrote:
>
> To the R developers,
>
> In R version 4.2.1 (2022-06-23 ucrt), and also in R version 4.2.1 
> Patched (2022-08-24 r82762 ucrt), something strange is happening with 
> the GUI Preferences x Rconsole file. I open the GUI Preferences (RGui 
> Configuration editor), and I define the number of console rows and 
> columns, the I click Apply and then I Save the Preferences to the 
> Rconsole file (which is in the Documents folders of my Windows 10 Pro) 
> -- I overwrite the existing Rconsole file. Then I close R.
>
> When I open R again, there is always a mismatch between the number of 
> console rows and columns correctly recorded in the Rconsole file and 
> the numbers actually shown in the RGui Configuration editor.

Dear Paulo,

thanks for the report. It is now fixed in R-devel 82776 (it would be 
nice if you could confirm the problem is fixed for you on your system).

You have run into an old bug in GraphApp, a library used by Rgui. The 
part saving and restoring the preferences works fine, but the problem 
occurs on R startup when creating a new console window. Rgui computes 
the client size of the window based on the preferred number of rows and 
columns and asks GraphApp to create such window. GraphApp uses its 
internal code (probably it pre-dates AdjustWindowRect) to compute the 
screen size of the window, so including the title bar, scroll bars, etc, 
and then asks Windows to create the window. Rgui then checks the actual 
client size of the created window and updates the number of rows and 
columns based on that - which is also the number you then see in the 
preferences editor. Ideally/normally it should be the same as what was 
given initially, e.g. via Rconsole.

However, the computation in GraphApp didn't work quite right, it didn't 
account for the scrollbars. And the reason was that it assumed a canvas 
(CanvasSize bit was set on the window flags). That bit was set by 
accident, because GraphApp by accident used the same bit number for 
CanvasSize and UseUnicode. The UseUnicode bit is set in Rgui when 
running in a multi-byte locale, so for you and many others probably only 
since R 4.2. I've changed GraphApp to use a different bit.

Thanks for testing Rgui and reporting problems.

Best
Tomas

>
> If this list allows attachments, the attached PNG image shows the 
> mismatch between the Rconsole file and the RGui Configuration editor, 
> just after opening R version 4.2.1 (2022-06-23 ucrt).
>
> Windows 10 Pro for Workstations
> Version 21H2
> Installed on 23/‎08/‎2022
> OS build 19044.1889
> Processor Intel(R) Xeon(R) W-1350 @ 3.30GHz  3.31 GHz
> Installed RAM 64.0 GB (63.7 GB usable)
>
>
> R version 4.2.1 (2022-06-23 ucrt) -- "Funny-Looking Kid"
> Copyright (C) 2022 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>
>  > Sys.info()
>            sysname           release           version nodename
>          "Windows"          "10 x64"     "build 19044" "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
>            machine             login              user effective_user
>           "x86-64"           "XXXXX         "XXXXX" "XXXXX"
>  > win.version()
> [1] "Windows 10 x64 (build 19044)"
>
>  > .Platform
> $OS.type
> [1] "windows"
> $file.sep
> [1] "/"
> $dynlib.ext
> [1] ".dll"
> $GUI
> [1] "Rgui"
> $endian
> [1] "little"
> $pkgType
> [1] "win.binary"
> $path.sep
> [1] ";"
> $r_arch
> [1] "x64"
>
> Thank you. Regards,
>
> Paulo Barata
>
> (Rio de Janeiro - Brazil)
>
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