[rkward-devel] Snapshot 7 sep: new plot window too big

[Prasenjit Kapat]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:22 AM, mat <matthieu.stigler at gmail.com> wrote:
> Le 09. 09. 10 15:25, Thomas Friedrichsmeier a écrit :
>
> On Thursday 09 September 2010, Matthieu Stigler wrote:
>
>
> please find in:
> /home/fao/Dropbox/Public/CaptureRkwardPlot.png
>
>
> For reference for others, here's the public url:
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6113358/CaptureRkwardPlot.png
>
> Ok, so the plot window is too high to fit into the available space at all.
> If
> the toolbar would be hidden, the window would probably fit, but of course
> hiding the toolbar by default is not a good solution. As far as I can see,
> the
> icons are as small as possible, already, and turning off the text labels
> would
> save width, but not height.
>
>
>
> a print scrren of my problem. Basically, just plotting on rkward
> 0.4.5-test5 (KDE 4.4.2), I can/t see the xlab, nor am I able to resize
> the window,as the lower right part is not accessible. But maybe I am
> just stupid and there is an obvious way to solve this in general?
>
>
> Well, the size of the plot window can be controlled in R. See ?x11. To use a
> smaller size by default, you can run
>    X11.options (width=5, height=5)
> (width and height need to be specified in inches). I suppose we could offer
> a
> graphical option for this in the settings, but it's a bit tricky, since it
> will need some platform-specific code. So not before 0.5.4 is released, at
> least.
>
>
> oh that's a pitty! I tried on my laptop with newest version (Ubuntu 10.4,and
> rkward 4.4.2) , and the problem is still there! Would be great if this could
> avoided in next release (just by default reduce window size?) as this
> correspond in some way for me to a "regression" in rkward features!
>
> thanks!
>
> mat

I see that Thomas has added a new settings in Configure > Onscreen
device. Can you try the svn code if it helps?

@ Thomas: the width and height are declared as 'int'. By choice? I
don't mind it, I am just curious.


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Prasenjit