On Mercoledì, ago 13, 2003, at 18:26 Europe/Rome, Thomas Lumley wrote:
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Jan de Leeuw wrote:
Some additional suggestions:
If you install/update packages, the output can be viewed in the Console application. Is that really the place where we want it ?
Good point. It's not clear exactly which functions should output to separate windows rather than the console. Currently this is decided automatically by whether the function uses the pager or cat/print.
The main drawback of putting the output in a separate window is that the
current ways of doing this would not show any output until the
installation is complete. I find that the main reason to turn off (or
turn down) buffered output in the console is exactly to see the
incremental output from package installations. Of course, an entirely
GUI solution using progress bars &c would be nice, but it's not going to
happen (certainly not before 1.8.0).
update.packages() without argument can be used from the RAqua console, but maybe the GUI should have an update.all button
As the default in Packages|update is to update, you can update all
packages by choosing Packages|update and then closing the window without
changing anything.
BTW, I've just fixed all the data browser windows to show when their contents have been modified, which gives a bit more interface feedback that something will happen when you close the window.
Quit from the menu requires you to respond to a question in the RAqua console. It would be more intuitive if Quit from the menu brought up a dialog window asking if you wanted to save the workspace.
And it now does.
Today I have put a new version of RAqua installer package on my page http://www.economia.unimi.it/R/
It is sync-ed with today's r-devel (11 GMT)
If you change settings in Network, for instance, there is an "Apply Now" button.
Yes. I don't disagree in principle, and I have found it confusing in OS X that some things need confirmation and others don't.
A dialog sheet asking for confirmation would be nice. I don't know how to
do these yet, but I am looking.
navigation API allows you for that by specifiing window modality opportunely. Have a look inside NavSample code in the Carbon SDK 1.6 from apple. THe "modern.c" file explains how to do these sort of stuff.
Sheet window are a problem as the dialog does not exit after a user selection (just like any ohter dialog!!!) but just after opening the dialog. You have to write some dedicated event loop code. I've avoided sheets for this reason.
I agree (of course) it shouldn't start an X server. But I may have an older version of RAqua, because mine still says
X11 module is not available under this GUI
Ah. X11 support went in fairly recently and I don't think is in the
last precompiled binary that Stefano put up (and yes, I remember you were
having compiling problems with RAqua).
You would need to compile a more recent version from rsync to get the X11
support.
-thomas
Thomas Lumley Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Washington, Seattle
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