[R] Tcl/Tk window lingering too long

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

David Firth <david.firth at nuffield.oxford.ac.uk> writes:

> Many thanks to Brian and Peter for their swift and helpful responses.
> 
> I tried Peter's suggestion (I think), as in
> 
> test<-function(){
> 	base<-tktoplevel()
> 		ok.but<-tkbutton(base,text="OK",
> 		         command=function(){
> 		             tkdestroy(base)
> 		             })
> 		tkpack(ok.but)
> 		tkwait.window(base)
> 	x<-rnorm(400000)
>          print("finished")}
> 
> but that version seems to have the same problem as before.
> 
> David

Drats!

Hmm. Inserting a .Tcl("update") does the trick. I'm slightly worried
about some of the "update considered evil" things I've heard - see
http://mini.net/tcl/1255.html. Looks like it would be fairly safe to
run it at top level, though. (At any rate there ought to be a
tkupdate() function, but there's not - yet...)

The Windows version runs the Tcl loop periodically during computations
which is why we aren't seeing this effect there. Unix-alikes only
check for events when waiting for keyboard input or when explicitly
requested.

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