[Bioc-devel] friezed pop-up windows in affylmGUI

Hi,
I am the maintainer of oneChannelGUI. I am observing a strange behavior of
pop-up windows generated by my package and by affylmGUI.
For example if I execute the set working directory command under affylmGUI
from affylmGUI menu or by as line command: SetWD()
and I repeat it 10 times I get at least ones that the pop-up window freezes
and I cannot delete it or writing in it, unless I maximize the pop-up window
and then I can see, in the upper-left corner of the screen, the regular
window and I can interact with it. It seems like that tcl window every
sometimes opens up not in the right screen coordinates and, unless you
visualize it on full screen, you are unable to interact with it.
This is quite erratic but frequent event, not only for the SetWD() function
but in general for tcl windows in affylmGUI and oneChannelGUI. I tried to
see if something like this happen also in the example of tkWidgets but I
could not obtain the behavior I observed in the above mentioned packages.

I have observed this criticality only in windows 7 and never in linux.
This suggests me tha tthe problem might be linked to the tcl/tk libraries
embedded R windows installation.
I would like to see if the problems I am observing are also present in case
an external version of tcl/tk libs is used. There is any command to force R
to use external tcl/tk, e.g. and installation of active tcl/tk?

Any suggestion to solve the problem I encountered is very welcome, since the
use of the interface is getting very boring if you need to maximize pop-up
every sometime.

Cheers
Raffaele

?P.S. I observed the problem on a locally compiled version of R under
windows and also downloading the latest R 2.14.1 for windows

sessionInfo()

R version 2.14.0 (2011-10-31)
Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=Italian_Italy.1252 ?LC_CTYPE=Italian_Italy.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=Italian_Italy.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=Italian_Italy.1252

attached base packages:
[1] tcltk ? ? stats ? ? graphics ?grDevices utils ? ? datasets ?methods
[8] base

other attached packages:
[1] affylmGUI_1.28.0 affyio_1.22.0 ? ?affy_1.32.0 ? ? ?Biobase_2.14.0
[5] limma_3.10.0

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] BiocInstaller_1.2.1 ? preprocessCore_1.16.0 zlibbioc_1.0.0

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Bioinformatics and Genomics Unit
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