R devel - Oct 2004 - strange windows behaviour after changing "lines" GUI setting (PR#7277)

Full_Name: Duncan Mackay
Version: 2.0.0
OS: WinXP
Submission from: (NULL) (129.96.120.254)

> version
         _              
platform i386-pc-mingw32
arch     i386           
os       mingw32        
system   i386, mingw32  
status                  
major    2              
minor    0.0            
year     2004           
month    10             
day      04             
language R       

I am running the above version of R under WinXP Service Pack 2.

I have encountered some strange behaviour after changing the "lines"
setting in
the GUI preferences, as follows:-

"Select Edit/GUI preferences..."
Change the "lines" setting from 8000 to 16000
Click "Apply" then "OK"
Back at the R console, type ?merge

The "R Help on 'merge'" window appears but is blank???????

Click back in the R Console window. Now it goes blank ???????????

Doesn't happen for me (on two rather different machines under Windows XP
SP2).  This looks like a Windows GDI refresh problem.  Does editing the
Rconsole file work?  If so, that is a usable workaround. Does minimizing
and restoring the windows show the correct contents?

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 duncan.mackay@flinders.edu.au wrote:
> Full_Name: Duncan Mackay
> Version: 2.0.0
> OS: WinXP
> Submission from: (NULL) (129.96.120.254)
> 
> 
> > version
>          _              
> platform i386-pc-mingw32
> arch     i386           
> os       mingw32        
> system   i386, mingw32  
> status                  
> major    2              
> minor    0.0            
> year     2004           
> month    10             
> day      04             
> language R       
> 
> I am running the above version of R under WinXP Service Pack 2.
> 
> I have encountered some strange behaviour after changing the
"lines" setting in
> the GUI preferences, as follows:-
> 
> "Select Edit/GUI preferences..."
> Change the "lines" setting from 8000 to 16000
> Click "Apply" then "OK"
> Back at the R console, type ?merge
> 
> The "R Help on 'merge'" window appears but is
blank???????
> 
> Click back in the R Console window. Now it goes blank ???????????
> 
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