On Mercoledì, ago 13, 2003, at 04:44 Europe/Rome, Jan de Leeuw wrote:


Small things, mostly.

1. Buildproblem. Well-known and annoying. Build fails if debugging is on
(which is the default) because Debugging.h breaks devQuartz.c
compiles. If debugging is switched off on the command line or in
the environment, then devQuartz.c builds, but aquaconsole.c does
not compile, because it needs Debugging.h. I do not want to edit
Apple system files, and not files in the R distribution either.

Not a small thing this one :)
I'll substitute the code inside aquaconsole & C. that conflicts with Debuggin.h and add then use -D__DEBUGGING__





2. It would be useful if quartz devices could be opened from a menu.
ok

3. Maybe a primary prompt in the input window would be useful.


4. Input and output windows cannot be resized independently. I
would still vote for two separate input and output windows.

5. Interaction with Tcl/Tk is still problematic. For instance, Tcl/Tk
takes over the menubar, and if you don't use tkStartGUI() the
tk windows don't respond to mouse clicks. For instance, try
using Rcmdr. Also if you use tkStartGUI(), and AquaTk has
taken over, it creates windows (for instance for downloading CRAN
packages) without scrollbars. This is important, because Tcl/Tk
is still the only possible way of building GUI applications
from RAqua.


6. If you want to download from CRAN you select packages in
a window, and the download starts if you close the window.
it starts only if you check the item "install", otherwise the R session continues giving you a prompt.
That's not intuitive, there should be a separate download or go
button.

7. I thought I saw somewhere that RAqua can now open X11
devices. Mine can't.
you should start QuartzX and use x11(display=":0")


8. Installation should be in ~/Applications, or in some other user defined position. My /Applications only has Apple software.
We can manage this through the installer probably. The problem is that Apple bundles seem to be too much rigid, I will think about it.





9. I see that there already is an "R Evaluate" service advertised. Great. Doesn't work yet, though.
emh, never implemented! It is strange you see anything as services.


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