[R] Potential minor GUI bug

[Uwe Ligges]

Liaw, Andy wrote:

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

I guess this is a Windows bug, because I have seen it in other 
applications as well. Hence I don't think we should waste our time here ...

Uwe Ligges



> 
> 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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