[Rd] tcltk freezing using MS Windows for R-2.14+

[Raffaele Calogero]

That's great!
I will also fix oneChannelGUI.
Thanks a lot!
Raffaele

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On Dec 19, 2012, at 6:27 AM, Keith <keith at wehi.EDU.AU> wrote:

> Andreas,
> 
> thanks so much for this clue.
> 
> I have found that if I reduced the time in seconds from 0.1 to 0.01 to 0.001 to 0.0001 I only had problems with freezing on the 0.0001 time.
> 
> I tested on Win7(64 bit) on an Intel core i7 870 at 2.93GHz (16GB ram)(8 cores)
> and a WinXP (32bit) Pentium 4 3.01GHz (2GB ram) using R-2.15.2(2012-10-26) on both.
> 
> I had previously found that the tkgrab.set command seemed to be the one actually freezing
> so I placed the sleep command just before that with the same result as it being just after the tktoplevel command.
> 
> I am now going to try it in my packages affylmGUI and limmaGUI, probably with a sleep time of 0.1 to be on the safe side,
> 
> many thanks,
> 
> Keith Satterley
> 
> On 18/12/2012 9:38 PM, Moeltner, Andreas wrote:
>> R Version 2.15.0/Windows XP
>> 
>> Maybe this will help to identify the problem (I have similar problems with other tcltk-windows, too.)
>> 
>> Inserting some time delay after tktoplevel helps (on my PC):
>> 
>>> test2GUI <- function(){
>>>     require(tcltk)
>>>     MainWindow <- tktoplevel()
>> Sys.sleep(0.1)
>>>     topMenu <- tkmenu(MainWindow)
>>>     tkconfigure(MainWindow,menu=topMenu)
>>>     tkgrab.set(MainWindow)
>>>     tkfocus(MainWindow)
>>> }
>> Cheers
>> Andreas
>> 
>> 
>> Andreas Möltner
> 
> 
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