From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Mon Oct 11 10:34:02 2004
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Mon Oct 11 10:34:31 2004
Subject: (PR#7277) Re: [Rd] strange windows behaviour after changing
	"lines" GUI setting (PR#7277)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0410110721270.30371-100000@gannet.stats>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0410110933210.1248-100000@gannet.stats>

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> Doesn't happen for me (on two rather different machines under Windows XP
> SP2).  This looks like a Windows GDI refresh problem.  Does editing the
> Rconsole file work?  If so, that is a usable workaround. Does minimizing
> and restoring the windows show the correct contents?

One more thing: was this the MDI or SDI interface?  I only tested SDI.

> On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 duncan.mackay@flinders.edu.au wrote:
> 
> > Full_Name: Duncan Mackay
> > Version: 2.0.0
> > OS: WinXP
> > Submission from: (NULL) (129.96.120.254)
> > 
> > 
> > > version
> >          _              
> > platform i386-pc-mingw32
> > arch     i386           
> > os       mingw32        
> > system   i386, mingw32  
> > status                  
> > major    2              
> > minor    0.0            
> > year     2004           
> > month    10             
> > day      04             
> > language R       
> > 
> > I am running the above version of R under WinXP Service Pack 2.
> > 
> > I have encountered some strange behaviour after changing the "lines" setting in
> > the GUI preferences, as follows:-
> > 
> > "Select Edit/GUI preferences..."
> > Change the "lines" setting from 8000 to 16000
> > Click "Apply" then "OK"
> > Back at the R console, type ?merge
> > 
> > The "R Help on 'merge'" window appears but is blank???????
> > 
> > Click back in the R Console window. Now it goes blank ???????????
> > 
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> > 
> > 
> 
> 

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(PR#7277) Re: [Rd] strange windows behaviour after changing "lines" GUI setting (PR#7277)
Prof Brian Ripley