R devel - Jul 2003 - bringToTop() when some windows been closed (PR#3512)

Full_Name: Henrik Bengtsson
Version: R v1.7.1
OS: WinXP Pro
Submission from: (NULL) (130.235.2.229)


bringToTop() does not work if some windows has been closed. Example:

graphics.off()
x11()         # opens Figure 2
x11()         # opens Figure 3
dev.set(2) 
dev.off()     # closes Figure 2
bringToTop(3) # Gives an error
# Error in bringToTop(as.integer(which)) : invalid value of `which'
x11()         # opens Figure 2 again
bringToTop(3) # Works fine

It seems that *all* preceeding figures k=2,3,..,K-1 have to exist to be able to
bringToTop() figure K.

Cheers

Henrik Bengtsson

We are talking about *devices* here, not windows and not figures.

Also, you are on Windows, where the device is called windows(), not
x11() (which is just there for back-compatibility).

The argument of bringToTop is a `device number'.  Unfortunately it tests 
this against NumDevices(), and that's not right.  The test has been 
corrected in R-devel.

As the FAQ says, please do not report guesses at the cause -- your
diagnosis is incorrect (and you have only one experimental point) and 
misled me.

On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 hb@maths.lth.se wrote:
> Full_Name: Henrik Bengtsson
> Version: R v1.7.1
> OS: WinXP Pro
> Submission from: (NULL) (130.235.2.229)
> 
> 
> bringToTop() does not work if some windows has been closed. Example:
> 
> graphics.off()
> x11()         # opens Figure 2
> x11()         # opens Figure 3
> dev.set(2) 
> dev.off()     # closes Figure 2
> bringToTop(3) # Gives an error
> # Error in bringToTop(as.integer(which)) : invalid value of `which'
> x11()         # opens Figure 2 again
> bringToTop(3) # Works fine
> 
> It seems that *all* preceeding figures k=2,3,..,K-1 have to exist to be
able to
> bringToTop() figure K.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Henrik Bengtsson
> 
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