[R-gui] Editor in R and Windows focus problems
John Fox
jfox at mcmaster.ca
Thu Apr 29 17:31:32 CEST 2004
Dear Dirk,
It's true that what I'm proposing is Windows-only but so is the status-quo
(i.e., the current GraphApp-based Rgui).
Regards,
John
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dirk Eddelbuettel [mailto:edd at debian.org]
> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 9:20 AM
> To: John Fox
> Cc: 'Philippe Grosjean'; 'Duncan Murdoch'; 'Soren Hojsgaard';
> r-sig-gui at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R-gui] Editor in R and Windows focus problems
>
>
> John,
>
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 10:15:10AM -0400, John Fox wrote:
> > Dear Philippe, Duncan, et al.,
> >
> > I hesitate to volunteer other people's work, but I wonder
> whether it
> > isn't time to think about replacing the GraphApp-based Rgui as the
> > standard interface to R under Windows. In particular, it
> occurs to me
> > that a scaled-down version of Philippe's SciViews --
> including a basic
> > set of menus, the Syn text editor, and perhaps an object browser --
> > would provide a superior interface. Of course, there may be
> obstacles
> > that I don't understand.
>
> That won't work as it is Windows-only. IIRC even Philippe now
> acknowledges that this is suboptimal.
>
> AFAICT the emerging consensus has been for quite some time to
> move to wxWindows (now called wxWidgets). But someone needs
> to do the work...
>
> Dirk
>
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