[R-SIG-Mac] Re: [R] can't get the quartz window to the background

[Tamas K Papp]

>From the r-help list I got the answer included below to my original
question, which was about Quartz not working properly when called from
a command-line/Emacs-inferior R process, only from R.app (the Quartz
windows becomes "passive", you cannot select or resize it).

I wonder if anybody has a solution to this, whether the issue is known
and if somebody knowledgeable would please fix this for the next
release.  I didn't want to post a bug report myself.

Thanks

Tamas

On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 05:59:58PM -0500, Ulises Mora Alvarez wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> The Quartz device only works well when is launched from  R.app. You may 
> launch an X Dev (the default when not in R.app) or use R.app. However if 
> neither one is a choice, you may use dev.copy() or dev.copy2eps() to save 
> your graph.
> 
> Regards.
> 
> 
> On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Tamas K Papp wrote:
> 
> > Dear List,
> > 
> > I have switched from Linux to OS X, and I find the R interface there
> > really nice.  I am using Emacs+ESS, and the quartz device.
> > 
> > My only problem is that
> > 
> > 1. I can't move the quartz window, whenever I go above it I see a
> >    spinning rainbow circle (AFAIK that means "I am busy" or "can't
> >    touch me" in OS X)
> > 
> > 2. Once something gets in front of it, I cannot raise it any more.
> > 
> > 3. I don't see it when I cycle the windows with Alt-Tab
> > 
> > I am sure that I am missing something, read the manual and searched
> > the archives, but found no solution to this.  That might be because I
> > am really new to OS X.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Tamas
> > 
> 
> 
> 
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