[Rd] RGUI font problem (PR#7749)

[murdoch at stats.uwo.ca]

On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 14:18:27 -0500, "Christos Hatzis"
<christos at nuverabio.com> wrote :

>It is running on MDI mode (default).
>
>It appears that if I save the preferences in the default (My Documents)
>folder after I make the change, the problem disappears.  I was just
>"Apply"-ing the changes and then "OK" without saving the new preferences
>first.  As a result, I did not have an Rconsole file in My Documents.
>
>This might be the reason why the problem was not reproducible by the
>development team. 

I think there's still something else:  I don't see it when I follow
your instructions above.

Duncan Murdoch

>
>Thanks for you time.
>-Christos 
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk] 
>Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 2:24 AM
>To: christos at nuverabio.com
>Cc: r-devel at stat.math.ethz.ch; R-bugs at biostat.ku.dk
>Subject: Re: [Rd] RGUI font problem (PR#7749)
>
>This would appear to be the same as PR#7277.  That too is not really
>reproducible.
>
>One possible crucial piece of missing information: is RGui being run in SDi
>or MDI mode?
>
>On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 christos at nuverabio.com wrote:
>
>> Full_Name: Christos Hatzis
>> Version: 2.0.1 patched (2005-02-18)
>> OS: WinXP SP2
>> Submission from: (NULL) (24.61.19.101)
>>
>>
>> I had encountered a similar problem when changing the font in the R 
>> Console and then then open the graphics device by plot(), the console
>window whites out.
>> this might be related to bug report 7271.  I mentioned it sometime 
>> back and was told is was not reproducible.
>>
>> Now I have encountered a similar problem that does not appear to 
>> relate to the graphics device. I started an R session, changed the font to
>size 8, Apply/OK.
>> Then I opened a help page by typing
>>> ?plot
>> the R help page opened in a different (system?) font and the font in 
>> the console also changed to the same bold-face, non-proportional font.  
>> Then when I typed another help command, the console completely blanked
>out.
>
>It is almost certainly not blank, just using the wrong foreground colour.
>
>> There seems to be some strange interaction going on between new 
>> windows opened by the system and the font setting in the GUI preferences.
>
>Yes, and that is PR#7277.