[Rd] AltGr not working in R GUI Script Editor (PR#9430)

[ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]

I do have AltGr (and Slovenian installed).   The issue is that the author 
of graphapp seems not to have had a 'right menu key' as MSDN call it.

This was fixed in R 0.9.1 and unfixed in R 2.0.0 by the author of the 
script editor, who wrote in graphapp/events.c

 	/* Check for menu control keys. */
 	/* disabled : Alt-Gr bug*/ /* Re-enabled for the moment, CJ */

I do now have a proper fix.


On Sat, 23 Dec 2006, Zoran Bosnic wrote:

> Dear Duncan,
>
>> I'm  working on an American keyboard, that doesn't have an AltGr key, so it's
>> hard to test anything.
>>
>> Are you familiar enough with Windows internals to work on this and
>> submit a patch, or do you know someone who is?
>
> Unfortunately I am not so familiar with windows internals and cannot remeber of anyone who might help, but I have a solution for you how you could test this.
>
> AltGr key can be simulated by pressing left Control+Alt keys together. This works on slovenian keyboards, and I guess it should also work on american, if slovenian input locale is set.
>
> I just tested this LeftCtrl+LeftAlt combination in R script editor and behaviour was the same.
>
>
>
>> One solution would be to add an option to disable handling of shortcut
>> keys in menus.  There's probably a better solution, but without being
>> able to test it, I don't think I could find it.
>
> Yes, this would also be an option. In fact I was already looking through the menus if there was such setting to remap keyboard shortcuts.
>
> Hope my suggestion helps.
>
> Best regards, Zoran Bosnic.
>
> Zoran Bosnic, M. Sc.
> Faculty of Computer and Information Science
> Laboratory of Cognitive Modelling
> Trzaska ulica 25
> 1000 Ljubljana
> Slovenia
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>  From: Duncan Murdoch
>  To: Duncan Murdoch
>  Cc: zoran.bosnic at fri.uni-lj.si ; R-bugs at biostat.ku.dk ; r-devel at stat.math.ethz.ch
>  Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 7:05 PM
>  Subject: Re: [Rd] AltGr not working in R GUI Script Editor (PR#9430)
>
>
>  On 12/23/2006 1:00 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>  > On 12/23/2006 6:07 AM, zoran.bosnic at fri.uni-lj.si wrote:
>  >> Full_Name: Zoran Bosnic
>  >> Version: 2.4.0
>  >> OS: Windows XP SP2
>  >> Submission from: (NULL) (212.235.140.146)
>  >>
>  >>
>  >> This is a problem that occurs in R GUI Script Editor and is connected to Windows
>  >> regional settings.
>  >>
>  >> Since I live in Slovenia, my computer has a keyboard with additional slovenian
>  >> international characters. I am therefore using Windows XP SP2 with Input
>  >> Language (=Keyboard Locale, Control Panel/Regional and Language
>  >> Options/Languages/Details/Input language) set to Slovenian.
>  >>
>  >> On slovenian keyboards characters as [, ], {, } are produced by pressing key
>  >> combinations AltGr+F, AltGr+G, AltGr+B and AltGr+N, respectively. These
>  >> combinations generally work in all Windows programs and also in R Console.
>  >> However, R Script editor produces behaves wrongly and causes:
>  >> AltGr+F to open Find dialog box,
>  >> AltGr+N to open new Script window.
>  >
>  > I see in comments in the source (in
>  > https://svn.r-project.org/trunk/src/gnuwin32/graphapp/events.c, around
>
>  Typo in URL:  should be
>
>  https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/gnuwin32/graphapp/events.c
>
>  > line 930) that this is a known bug, but I don't know how to fix it.  I'm
>  > working on an American keyboard, that doesn't have an AltGr key, so it's
>  > hard to test anything.
>  >
>  > One solution would be to add an option to disable handling of shortcut
>  > keys in menus.  There's probably a better solution, but without being
>  > able to test it, I don't think I could find it.
>  >
>  > Are you familiar enough with Windows internals to work on this and
>  > submit a patch, or do you know someone who is?
>  >
>  > Duncan Murdoch
>  >
>  >> Consequentially, it is not possible to type ] and } brackets using slovenian
>  >> input settings in script editor. Meanwhile, AltGr+G and AltGr+B work fine.
>  >>
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