R help - Jun 2003 - Layout of windows devices

Hi
 
Is there a way to specify the location on the screen where a new
graphics device opens, for example with a call to win.graph()?
I'm using R 1.7.0 on Windows XP.
 
Thank you.
 
Regards,
 
David

On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 11:05:30 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi
> 
>Is there a way to specify the location on the screen where a new
>graphics device opens, for example with a call to win.graph()?
>I'm using R 1.7.0 on Windows XP.
There isn't currently, but it should be possible to add it.  The
window creation is done in src/gnuwin32/devga.c.  

However, the user interface doesn't look easy.  Windows machines can
have more than one monitor, so you'd want to be able to say which
monitor it would appear on, as well as where.  I think you'd want to
be able to query the monitor size to make the choice useful.  

Is this something that you'd be able to do a first pass through?  I'd
be happy to put it in if someone else did most of the work, but I've
got a lot of other things in the works, and this looks too
time-consuming for a relatively small payback.  After all, you can
manually move the window after it is created.

Duncan Murdoch

Duncan -- thanks for your reply. As you point out -- this is more a
"nice-to-have" and should not really be prioritised in any way. I
currently run a lengthy statistical process in which intermediate
results are continually output to many graph devices and I was wondering
if there was an existing way to programatically tile the devices rather
than do it manually each time. I would have been happy to use any
existing functionality, but certainly do not think it is important
enough to merit any development work. I think I will rewrite the output
code to use just one (larger) graphics device which is tiled using
layout() or split.screen() instead.

Thanks again
David


-----Original Message-----
From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:dmurdoch at pair.com] 
Sent: 13 June 2003 12:09
To: David Khabie-Zeitoune
Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] Layout of windows devices


On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 11:05:30 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi
> 
>Is there a way to specify the location on the screen where a new 
>graphics device opens, for example with a call to win.graph()? I'm 
>using R 1.7.0 on Windows XP.
There isn't currently, but it should be possible to add it.  The window
creation is done in src/gnuwin32/devga.c.  

However, the user interface doesn't look easy.  Windows machines can
have more than one monitor, so you'd want to be able to say which
monitor it would appear on, as well as where.  I think you'd want to be
able to query the monitor size to make the choice useful.  

Is this something that you'd be able to do a first pass through?  I'd be
happy to put it in if someone else did most of the work, but I've got a
lot of other things in the works, and this looks too time-consuming for
a relatively small payback.  After all, you can manually move the window
after it is created.

Duncan Murdoch