I did a few other places where askstring() is used, e.g. Help / apropos... and friends.
No problem Duncan if you decide not to fix. It's one of those "it'd be nice if it was fixed - but it's not a problem if it doesn't" bugs... :-) and now that I have a modern (i.e. 5 year old Linux machine) at home I'm no longer reliant on the ancient laptop for everyday use! All the best, Sean On 29/03/2008, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 29/03/2008 1:10 PM, Sean O'Riordain wrote: > > Hi Duncan, > > > > I suspect that it's not the SHBrowseForFolder call as it seems fine > > once the Browse button is pressed - the problem occurs *before* the > > Browse button is pressed. > > > The Change Dir dialog in R 2.7.0 no longer uses the > winDialogString()-like dialog, so the problem will go away in that one > case, but any other user of the underlying code will still have the > problem. It's because that function sets up a loop to poll for results. > Doesn't really seem worth the trouble to fix. > > > Duncan Murdoch > > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel