menu printing fails for windows graphics device (PR#1601)

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

This is known, already fixed in R-patched.  Please look in the R-help
archives (including for where you can get a pre-compiled version of
a late enough version to have the fix).


On Sat, 25 May 2002 jlongmate@coh.org wrote:

> Full_Name: Jeffrey Longmate
> Version: 1.5.0
> OS: Windows NT 4.00
> Submission from: (NULL) (151.152.101.44)
>
>
> On Version 1.5.0  (2002-04-29) for Windows, the following brings up a plot, then
> a printer selection window, and produces a printed plot:
> > plot(1:10,1:10)
> > dev.print(win.print)
> but with focus on the graphics window, neither the printer button, the printer
> selection from the file menu, nor CTRL-P do anything.  No printer window
> appears.  These all work in version 1.4.1 on the same machine, on the same day.
> I tried re-installing R 1.5.0 from a freshly downloaded SetupR.exe, and the same
> thing happened.
> I can use the file menu to save to a PDF file, or to copy to the clipboard, but
> not to directly print the contents of the graphics window.
>
> The R for Windows FAQ, Version for rw1050, states "You can print the graphics
> window from its menu or by using dev.print with suitable arguments (see its help
> page: most likely dev.print(win.graph) will work)."  The reference to win.graph
> should probably be to win.print.
>
> > version
>          _
> platform i386-pc-mingw32
> arch     i386
> os       mingw32
> system   i386, mingw32
> status
> major    1
> minor    5.0
> year     2002
> month    04
> day      29
> language R
>
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