From ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk  Tue Jul 16 19:28:52 2002
From: ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk (ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk)
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 19:28:52 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [R] Minor GUI Issues
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[Moved to R-devel, where development issues belong.]

Patches will be considered.  No one is currently working on the Windows
GUI, and its originator, Guido Masarotto, is no longer active in R.


On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Mike Prager wrote:

> Some minor request for the R on Windows (2000) GUI version.  I'm using
> 1.5.1 with the SDI interface.
>
> (1) When minimized, the main R window and the graphics window show as two
> copies of the same icon.  That makes it less convenient to switch among
> tasks in Windows, as I often select the wrong one.  Could they have
> different icons in the future, please?
>
> (2) I use a fixed-width Type 1 font for the console
> (LucidaSans-Typewriter), and that can be set in the Rconsole file without
> problem.  But if I bring up the GUI preferences (from menus Edit | Gui
> Preferences), only TT fixed width fonts are shown, the "font" field is
> blank, and ending that dialog results in the font being reset to the
> default fixed system font.  If practical and not overly burdensome to fix
> that, it would be nice.

> (3) Could the toolbar could be available on the main window even under
> SDI?  I much prefer SDI, which doesn't waste vast amounts of screen space
> like MDI, but the toolbar can be handy.
>
> (4) Any chance of binding the F-keys to things like ls(), ls.str(), or
> matching command history (like S-PLUS Windows F8)?

(That is probably not easily possible: take a look at the code to see
why: key presses are encoded in 8 bits by Guido's code.)

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