[R] Potential minor GUI bug

[Francisco J. Zagmutt]

Dear Uwe

I have not seen this behavior in other windows applications but I 
definitivelly agree with you that it is probably not worth spending time on 
this trivial issue.

Thanks

Francisco


>From: Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
>To: "Liaw, Andy" <andy_liaw at merck.com>
>CC: "'Francisco J. Zagmutt'" 
><gerifalte28 at hotmail.com>,R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
>Subject: Re: [R] Potential minor GUI bug
>Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 08:21:05 +0200
>
>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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