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how do I return "focus" to console window

2 messages · tomsv193@student.liu.se, Brian Ripley

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tomsv193@student.liu.se
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Hi!

I am creating a tool for adjustments of a special kind of datasets. I 
am plotting these dataset, and after a plot the program needs 
information from the user (via readline("1: approve 2: disapprove > ").
Everything works fine apart from the fact that I have to click (with 
the mouse) on the console-window before I can gice the program its 
input. That is a bit annoying. The question is: how can I arrange it so 
that I only have to press the key (that is: that the console-windows 
is "active" - in some sense - after a plot)

I am using R 1.2.3 on WinNT...

kind regards,
   Tomas Svensson

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Brian Ripley
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On Wed, 20 Jun 2001 tomsv193 at student.liu.se wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
This is down to the details of your setup: which interface (MDI or SDI)
and how Windows is controlling the pointer, and so on.  I don't see a
focus shift except when a graphics window is first launched, and that is
deliberate (to bring it to the front).  So I can't tell you how to solve
something I never see.

There is a function bringToTop() to do the reverse, to give focus to the
graphics window.  You could probably modify it to do what you want:
if you do please contribute the modification.