[Bioc-devel] friezed pop-up windows in affylmGUI

Dan Tenenbaum dtenenba at fhcrc.org
Thu Jan 12 19:49:58 CET 2012


Hi Raffaele,

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 1:09 AM, rcaloger <raffaele.calogero at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am the maintainer of oneChannelGUI. I am observing a strange behavior of
> pop-up windows generated by my package and by affylmGUI.
> For example if I execute the set working directory command under affylmGUI
> from affylmGUI menu or by as line command: SetWD()
> and I repeat it 10 times I get at least ones that the pop-up window freezes
> and I cannot delete it or writing in it, unless I maximize the pop-up window
> and then I can see, in the upper-left corner of the screen, the regular
> window and I can interact with it. It seems like that tcl window every
> sometimes opens up not in the right screen coordinates and, unless you
> visualize it on full screen, you are unable to interact with it.
> This is quite erratic but frequent event, not only for the SetWD() function
> but in general for tcl windows in affylmGUI and oneChannelGUI. I tried to
> see if something like this happen also in the example of tkWidgets but I
> could not obtain the behavior I observed in the above mentioned packages.
>
> I have observed this criticality only in windows 7 and never in linux.
> This suggests me tha tthe problem might be linked to the tcl/tk libraries
> embedded R windows installation.
> I would like to see if the problems I am observing are also present in case
> an external version of tcl/tk libs is used. There is any command to force R
> to use external tcl/tk, e.g. and installation of active tcl/tk?
>
> Any suggestion to solve the problem I encountered is very welcome, since the
> use of the interface is getting very boring if you need to maximize pop-up
> every sometime.
>

I don't know the answer to your question, but why not use
tk_choose.dir()
instead?
It seems to work well, unlike the existing dialog (I see the same
behavior that you do) and looks to be better integrated with the
native OS directory chooser dialog.

Dan


> Cheers
> Raffaele
>
>  P.S. I observed the problem on a locally compiled version of R under
> windows and also downloading the latest R 2.14.1 for windows
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.14.0 (2011-10-31)
> Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=Italian_Italy.1252  LC_CTYPE=Italian_Italy.1252
> [3] LC_MONETARY=Italian_Italy.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=Italian_Italy.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] tcltk     stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
> [8] base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] affylmGUI_1.28.0 affyio_1.22.0    affy_1.32.0      Biobase_2.14.0
> [5] limma_3.10.0
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] BiocInstaller_1.2.1   preprocessCore_1.16.0 zlibbioc_1.0.0
>
> --
>
> ----------------------------------------
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> Bioinformatics and Genomics Unit
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