R devel - Apr 2003 - Weird Windows startup menu display problem in 1.7.0 (PR#2817)

Folks:

Winnt; R1.7.0 (freshly installed) running under Rgui.exe.,MDI=yes.

The following is repeatable:
On startup, in my Rprofile.site file, I use winMenuAdd() etc. to install
some user menus. However, they do not appear when R GUI window opens. If I
minimize and restore the window, the added menus now are present.

The exact same procedure under 1.6.2 with exactly the same Rprofile.site and
Rconsole files works fine.

Have fun.

Cheers,

Bert Gunter
Biometrics Research RY 84-16
Merck & Company
P.O. Box 2000
Rahway, NJ 07065-0900
Phone: (732) 594-7765
mailto: bert_gunter@merck.com

"The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning
process."      -- George E.P. Box

bert_gunter@merck.com wrote:
> Folks:
> 
> Winnt; R1.7.0 (freshly installed) running under Rgui.exe.,MDI=yes.
> 
> The following is repeatable:
> On startup, in my Rprofile.site file, I use winMenuAdd() etc. to install
> some user menus. However, they do not appear when R GUI window opens. If I
> minimize and restore the window, the added menus now are present.
Confirmed. Some GUI redrawing events have been cleaned up (I'm quite 
sure I have read about it) -- probably one too much.
Duncan and/or Brian surely know where to fix that (comparing with the 
R-1.6.2 sources will give a hint, if you are going to debug yourself).

Uwe Ligges


> The exact same procedure under 1.6.2 with exactly the same Rprofile.site
and
> Rconsole files works fine.
> 
> Have fun.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Bert Gunter
> Biometrics Research RY 84-16
> Merck & Company
> P.O. Box 2000
> Rahway, NJ 07065-0900
> Phone: (732) 594-7765
> mailto: bert_gunter@merck.com
> 
> "The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific
learning
> process."      -- George E.P. Box
> 
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On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 17:23:27 +0200 (MET DST), you wrote in message
<200304221523.h3MFNRpD013846@pubhealth.ku.dk>:
>Folks:
>
>Winnt; R1.7.0 (freshly installed) running under Rgui.exe.,MDI=yes.
>
>The following is repeatable:
>On startup, in my Rprofile.site file, I use winMenuAdd() etc. to install
>some user menus. However, they do not appear when R GUI window opens. If I
>minimize and restore the window, the added menus now are present.
Thanks for the report.  I can reproduce this.  Interestingly, it only
happens in MDI mode; with --sdi on the command line things behave
properly.

Duncan Murdoch