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

[Jan de Leeuw]

a) The machine will be up tomorrow

b) Stefano and Simon are working on the Cocoa interface for R (which is  
coming along
very nicely), and the problems of (b1) using Quartz from the command  
line and
(b2) of using Aqua Tcl/Tk from the Cocoa interface are not on the list  
for 2.0.0.

On Sep 22, 2004, at 12:12 PM, Tamas K Papp wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 11:57:42AM -0700, Jan de Leeuw wrote:
>
>> Yes, this is the famous SetForegroundProcess problem. There
>> is a way around it that does not involve changing the R sources.
>>
>> One simple version of this is to download my R from
>> http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu/pub, although that computer is currently  
>> down.
>> because of our move.
>>
>> The other is to apply the resourcefork hack.
>
> Dear Prof de Leeuw,
>
> Thanks for the help!  Before compiling R from source, I would like to
> try the R version that you mentioned.  Do you know when the machine is
> going to be up?
>
> Another thing: do you think that the R core team knows about this, so
> the fix can be included in the next release?
>
> Thanks
>
> Tamas
>
>
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