(PR#7277) Re: [Rd] strange windows behaviour after changing

[ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]

I can reproduce this in MDI.  Another clue is that as the pager for 
?merge is opened, the font in the console changes.

The console is still working: commands you type in it are accepted.
So the issue appears to be that the font in use has been changed
incorrectly (and it seems that the C code thinks it has been changed in 
the preferences dialog).


On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Duncan Mackay wrote:

> Hello,
> Thanks for your reply. Yes, editing Rconsole worked (problem didn't appear
> under MDI with lines=16000) after start-up.
> Simply shrinking and restoring the windows didn't restore functionality - my
> R console window remained blank and unresponsive (even to Esc's) so I had to
> shut down R. I was using the MDI interface and my computer is a Toshiba
> Satellite A10 laptop. 
> I've just tried editing the Rconsole to switch to SDI, and the problems
> didn't appear under SDI. 
> Thanks, Duncan
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk] 
> Sent: Monday, 11 October 2004 6:04 PM
> To: duncan.mackay at flinders.edu.au
> Cc: R-bugs at biostat.ku.dk; r-devel at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: (PR#7277) Re: [Rd] strange windows behaviour after changing
> "lines" GUI setting (PR#7277)
> 
> 
> On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> 
> > Doesn't happen for me (on two rather different machines under Windows
> > XP SP2).  This looks like a Windows GDI refresh problem.  Does editing 
> > the Rconsole file work?  If so, that is a usable workaround. Does 
> > minimizing and restoring the windows show the correct contents?
> 
> One more thing: was this the MDI or SDI interface?  I only tested SDI.
> 
> > On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 duncan.mackay at flinders.edu.au wrote:
> > 
> > > Full_Name: Duncan Mackay
> > > Version: 2.0.0
> > > OS: WinXP
> > > Submission from: (NULL) (129.96.120.254)
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > version
> > >          _              
> > > platform i386-pc-mingw32
> > > arch     i386           
> > > os       mingw32        
> > > system   i386, mingw32  
> > > status                  
> > > major    2              
> > > minor    0.0            
> > > year     2004           
> > > month    10             
> > > day      04             
> > > language R       
> > > 
> > > I am running the above version of R under WinXP Service Pack 2.
> > > 
> > > I have encountered some strange behaviour after changing the "lines"
> > > setting in the GUI preferences, as follows:-
> > > 
> > > "Select Edit/GUI preferences..."
> > > Change the "lines" setting from 8000 to 16000
> > > Click "Apply" then "OK"
> > > Back at the R console, type ?merge
> > > 
> > > The "R Help on 'merge'" window appears but is blank???????
> > > 
> > > Click back in the R Console window. Now it goes blank ???????????
> > > 
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> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 

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