[R-gui] Editor in R and Windows focus problems

[John Fox]

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
> 
> --
> The relationship between the computed price and reality is as 
> yet unknown.  
>                                              -- From the 
> pac(8) manual page