R devel - Jun 2005 - Rgui bug in Windows: leftover download dialog (PR#7964)

In Windows, if a download is interrupted (by switching to the console 
window and hitting ESC), the download status dialog can be left 
onscreen, with no apparent way to get rid of it (other than stopping and 
restarting R).

To duplicate:

Run this:

a <- available.packages()
download.packages(a, 'c:/temp')

Then, during a particularly long download, switch to the console window 
and hit ESC.

This affects R-devel, as well as 2.1.1.

Duncan Murdoch

On 6/22/2005 4:15 PM, murdoch at stats.uwo.ca wrote:
> In Windows, if a download is interrupted (by switching to the console 
> window and hitting ESC), the download status dialog can be left 
> onscreen, with no apparent way to get rid of it (other than stopping and 
> restarting R).
> 
> To duplicate:
> 
> Run this:
> 
> a <- available.packages()
> download.packages(a, 'c:/temp')
> 
> Then, during a particularly long download, switch to the console window 
> and hit ESC.
> 
> This affects R-devel, as well as 2.1.1.
Now fixed in R-devel and R-patched.  I also set it so the dialog retains 
its position if you move it out of the way; it was pretty irritating to 
have it pop up in the middle of the screen every time in a multiple file 
download.

Duncan Murdoch