[R] Potential minor GUI bug

Liaw, Andy andy_liaw at merck.com
Fri Jun 17 08:06:52 CEST 2005


Now I understand.  I get the same thing in SDI mode (R-2.1.0 on WinXPPro).
No idea why...

Andy

> From: Francisco J. Zagmutt 
> 
> Dear Any
> 
> Thanks for your response.  Maybe I did not explain the 
> behavior well.  I am 
> aware that the "Not Responding" is a windows default.  What I 
> was trying to 
> explain is that once the process that generated the Not Responding is 
> finished and I can use R for othe computations the "Not 
> Responding" caption 
> will remain in the task bar icon but not in the caption on 
> the main Gui 
> form.  Please see the attached screen caption for an example.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Francisco
> 
> 
> 
> >From: "Liaw, Andy" <andy_liaw at merck.com>
> >To: "'Francisco J. Zagmutt'" 
> ><gerifalte28 at hotmail.com>,R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> >Subject: RE: [R] Potential minor GUI bug
> >Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 17:26:03 -0400
> >
> >I don't think that's a bug.  Almost every Windows 
> application can do that:
> >when it's busy with computation, you'll see the "not 
> responding" message.
> >
> >Andy
> >
> > > From: Francisco J. Zagmutt
> > >
> > > Is this an interface bug?  Using RGUI for windows I run 
> into a "Not
> > > Responding" process (I "smartly" coded an infinite loop,
> > > yaiks!), I hit esc
> > > and the interpreter was stopped and I recovered the console
> > > functionality
> > > but the caption on the R icon in my windows taskbar (the
> > > individual icon
> > > shown for every software currently running in the session)
> > > was not updated
> > > so the caption still reads "RGui (Not Responding)". This 
> behavior is
> > > repeated everytime I run into a "Not responding" process.
> > > Off course if I
> > > end the session and open a new session the icon caption goes
> > > back to the
> > > normal "RGui".
> > >
> > > I am running R2.1.0 on Windows XP Pro V. 2002 SP2, Pentium M,
> > > 1.00 Gb Ram.
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > > Francisco
> > >
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