[rkward-devel] dev.off () bug

[Prasenjit Kapat]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Thomas Friedrichsmeier
<thomas.friedrichsmeier at ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Prasenjit Kapat schrieb:
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 2:18 AM, Prasenjit Kapat <kapatp at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Doing debug (dev.off) shows: (A) the current device (2) is closed and
>>> (B) two new devices (3,4) are opened when .Internal (dev.off
>>> (.......)) gets called.
>
> somehow that mail appears to be lost.
>
> Anyway, I guess the content is that it just didn't work.

Yeah! I have sent you that mail separately.. It just refused to go
through the list. I hope this one does.

> I see that you found a workaround, but of course it would be best, if we can
> fix the problem at its root. I suspect it's due to the fact that the RKWard
> GUI thread attempts to do something with the X window, when it is already
> gone in R. Then, for some reason, R spawns two new devices in reaction to
> that. I'm attaching a patch that removes your workaround, and tries to add
> some better synchronization instead. Since I still don't see the issue,
> could you please test, whether this fixes the problem for you?

I'll try the patch as soon as I get back.

Regards,
-- 
Prasenjit