[Rd] closing View windows after multiple View(x) crashes

[Prof Brian Ripley]

We have found elsewhere that the need to use XSync is very dependent on 
the window manager. What manager were you using?

I'll add the call in any case.

On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Bill Dunlap wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Ben Bolker wrote:
>
>>    That works like a charm.  Thanks!
>>
>>    Ben Bolker
>
> Good.  Here is the patch I used.  (I didn't send it
> earlier because my code still had a bunch of Rprintf
> calls in it to track the event loop activity.
>
> Index: src/modules/X11/dataentry.c
> ===================================================================
> --- src/modules/X11/dataentry.c	(revision 46139)
> +++ src/modules/X11/dataentry.c	(working copy)
> @@ -1881,6 +1881,7 @@
> #endif
>     XDestroyWindow(iodisplay, DE->iowindow);
>     /* XCloseDisplay(iodisplay); */
> +    Rsync(DE);
> }
>
> #define USE_Xt 1
>
> Valgrind reports a slew of memory leaks when R closes
> after using View(), but it didn't show any use of freed
> or uninitialized memory after that change.
>
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