On 10/16/2006 10:47 PM, Alex Couture-Beil wrote: > Hello > > I have been playing with tcl/tk in R 2.4.0 on windows XP and have > managed to crash R by supplying tcl/tk with an incorrect color. > Is this a bug? is there a way for me to test the color to see if it is a > valid tcl/tk color, to avoid this? > > tt=tktoplevel() > tklabel(parent=tt, text="hello world", foreground="reed") > Error in structure(.External("dotTclObjv", objv, PACKAGE = "tcltk"), > class = "tclObj") : > [tcl] unknown color name "reed". > An error is displayed as one would expect, however when I try > tktext(parent=tt, foreground="blaaack") > R crashes, rather than displaying an error as tklabel did. > > This, however, does not happen on my FreeBSD machine, which displays an > error similar to the one for tklabel and does not crash.
A little bit more information: I traced through the TK code, and it does recognize the error and tries to deal with it, but in the process of destroying the partially created text widget, it dies. I think this is a TK bug rather than an R bug; I don't know a good workaround. Duncan Murdoch > Thanks for any help, > Alex Couture-Beil > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.