From murdoch at stats.uwo.ca  Thu Nov 10 17:39:01 2005
From: murdoch at stats.uwo.ca (Duncan Murdoch)
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 11:39:01 -0500
Subject: [Rd] R:  bug in windows GUI/script editor (PR#8288)
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On 11/10/2005 8:58 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 11/10/2005 3:02 AM, roberto.ugoccioni at sanpaoloimi.com wrote:
> 
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> 
> 
> Roberto:
> 
> Something went wrong with your posting -- it came out completely in 
> binary.
> 
> I think I have found what was wrong with the editor windows.  There were 
> two problems:
> 
>   - a variable was sometimes uninitialized.  I've fixed this in R-devel 
> (though it won't be downloadable for a while).  I had hoped this was 
> enough, but it wasn't.
> 
>   - the script editor window duplicates some menu items from the main 
> window, but unfortunately in doing so it overwrites some pointers to 
> those items.  When the script editor is closed, the pointers become 
> invalid, and you may crash.
> 
> The second fix will require more extensive work, but I should get it 
> done today.

Now committed to both R-patched and R-devel.  Will show up in the 
binaries on CRAN in due time.

Duncan Murdoch



[Rd] R: bug in windows GUI/script editor (PR#8288)
Duncan Murdoch