[Rd] Embedded R and x11

[Prof Brian Ripley]

I think you are barking up the wrong tree.  If you want to use an 
event-driven sub-system you need to run an event loop.

There is a lot of new information in 2.1.0 on building a front-end.
Please read it.

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Thomas Friedrichsmeier wrote:

> I'm working on a frontend for R. I have R running in a separate thread in my
> application using Rf_initEmbeddedR, and I'm using R_tryEval to run commands
> in R (i.e. I don't run the mainloop).
> Everything works fine, except the x11-device: I can open x11-windows and paint
> to them alright from R. However, the x11-window does not respond to any
> events. E.g. clicking the close-button simply does not close the window and
> the contents in the window do not get refreshed when it was hidden by other
> windows.
> I figured that the reason for this might be, that R_ProcessEvents () and
> handleEvent () in devX11.c do not get called (of course I might be completely
> wrong?). So I tried calling R_ProcessEvents () manually, but I can't get that
> to link (unresolved symbol R_ProcessEvents).
> Any hints on how I can get this to work?

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