RGUI font problem (PR#7749)

It is running on MDI mode (default).

It appears that if I save the preferences in the default (My Documents)
folder after I make the change, the problem disappears.  I was just
"Apply"-ing the changes and then "OK" without saving the new preferences
first.  As a result, I did not have an Rconsole file in My Documents.

This might be the reason why the problem was not reproducible by the
development team. 

Thanks for you time.
-Christos 

-----Original Message-----
From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk] 
Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 2:24 AM
To: christos@nuverabio.com
Cc: r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch; R-bugs@biostat.ku.dk
Subject: Re: [Rd] RGUI font problem (PR#7749)

This would appear to be the same as PR#7277.  That too is not really
reproducible.

One possible crucial piece of missing information: is RGui being run in SDi
or MDI mode?

On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 christos@nuverabio.com wrote:

Full_Name: Christos Hatzis
Version: 2.0.1 patched (2005-02-18)
OS: WinXP SP2
Submission from: (NULL) (24.61.19.101)


I had encountered a similar problem when changing the font in the R 
Console and then then open the graphics device by plot(), the console

window whites out.

this might be related to bug report 7271.  I mentioned it sometime 
back and was told is was not reproducible.

Now I have encountered a similar problem that does not appear to 
relate to the graphics device. I started an R session, changed the font to

size 8, Apply/OK.

Then I opened a help page by typing

?plot

the R help page opened in a different (system?) font and the font in 
the console also changed to the same bold-face, non-proportional font.  
Then when I typed another help command, the console completely blanked

out.

It is almost certainly not blank, just using the wrong foreground colour.

There seems to be some strange interaction going on between new 
windows opened by the system and the font setting in the GUI preferences.

Yes, and that is PR#7277.