R help - Jun 2003 - winMenuAdd misbehaving?

Microsoft Windows R users,

I am operating Windows 2000 (build2195) with R1.7.  It may be pertinent that
I am using a dual head screen with the initial RGui filing the entire area
of both screens.

When starting R I use the .First() function to add menu items to the RGui
interface using winMenuAdd() and winMenuAddItem().  The menus do not display
until the RGui window is physically manipulated in some way. In R1.6.2 the
menus were immediately available without the need to manipulate the window.
In all other ways the menus function as previously.

Questions;
1) does anyone else get the same behaviour?

2) If this is intended for some reason, and not a bug, then is there a way
of invoking the update of the menu bar from within .First() or perhaps using
command line arguement?  

Perhaps I'm missing something obvious. Any suggestions are most welcome.

Regards
Simon Gatehouse

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On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 10:59:56 +1000 , you wrote:
>Microsoft Windows R users,
>
>I am operating Windows 2000 (build2195) with R1.7.  It may be pertinent that
>I am using a dual head screen with the initial RGui filing the entire area
>of both screens.
>
>When starting R I use the .First() function to add menu items to the RGui
>interface using winMenuAdd() and winMenuAddItem().  The menus do not display
>until the RGui window is physically manipulated in some way. 
This is bug 2817; it should be fixed in the current beta version of
1.7.1; please give it a try.  You can download it from
<http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/murdoch/software/r-devel>.

Duncan Murdoch

R1.7.1beta seems to be fine.
Many Thanks Duncan
SimonG

-----Original Message-----
From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:dmurdoch at pair.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 11:52 AM
To: Simon.Gatehouse at csiro.au
Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] winMenuAdd misbehaving?


On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 10:59:56 +1000 , you wrote:
>Microsoft Windows R users,
>
>I am operating Windows 2000 (build2195) with R1.7.  It may be pertinent
that
>I am using a dual head screen with the initial RGui filing the entire area
>of both screens.
>
>When starting R I use the .First() function to add menu items to the RGui
>interface using winMenuAdd() and winMenuAddItem().  The menus do not
display
>until the RGui window is physically manipulated in some way. 
This is bug 2817; it should be fixed in the current beta version of
1.7.1; please give it a try.  You can download it from
<http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/murdoch/software/r-devel>.

Duncan Murdoch