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AltGr not working in R GUI Script Editor (PR#9430)

4 messages · zoran.bosnic at fri.uni-lj.si, Duncan Murdoch, Zoran Bosnic

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zoran.bosnic at fri.uni-lj.si
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Full_Name: Zoran Bosnic
Version: 2.4.0
OS: Windows XP SP2
Submission from: (NULL) (212.235.140.146)


This is a problem that occurs in R GUI Script Editor and is connected to Windows
regional settings.

Since I live in Slovenia, my computer has a keyboard with additional slovenian
international characters. I am therefore using Windows XP SP2 with Input
Language (=Keyboard Locale, Control Panel/Regional and Language
Options/Languages/Details/Input language) set to Slovenian.

On slovenian keyboards characters as [, ], {, } are produced by pressing key
combinations AltGr+F, AltGr+G, AltGr+B and AltGr+N, respectively. These
combinations generally work in all Windows programs and also in R Console.
However, R Script editor produces behaves wrongly and causes:
AltGr+F to open Find dialog box,
AltGr+N to open new Script window.

Consequentially, it is not possible to type ] and } brackets using slovenian
input settings in script editor. Meanwhile, AltGr+G and AltGr+B work fine.
Duncan Murdoch
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On 12/23/2006 6:07 AM, zoran.bosnic at fri.uni-lj.si wrote:
I see in comments in the source (in 
https://svn.r-project.org/trunk/src/gnuwin32/graphapp/events.c, around 
line 930) that this is a known bug, but I don't know how to fix it.  I'm 
working on an American keyboard, that doesn't have an AltGr key, so it's 
hard to test anything.

One solution would be to add an option to disable handling of shortcut 
keys in menus.  There's probably a better solution, but without being 
able to test it, I don't think I could find it.

Are you familiar enough with Windows internals to work on this and 
submit a patch, or do you know someone who is?

Duncan Murdoch
Duncan Murdoch
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On 12/23/2006 1:00 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
Typo in URL:  should be

https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/gnuwin32/graphapp/events.c