should be there shortly - I have no way of testing windows (right now,
at least), so hopefully Duncan M will have time to take a look
Deepayan Sarkar wrote:
> On 5/5/07, Luke Tierney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> However, R_PolledEvents is only called from a limited set of places
>> now (including the socket reading code to keep things responsive
>> during blocking reads). But it is not called from the interupt
>> checking code, which means if a user does something equivalent to
>>
>> while (TRUE) {}
>>
>> there is not point where events get looked at to see a user interrupt
>> action. The current definition of R_CheckUserInterrupt is
>>
>> void R_CheckUserInterrupt(void)
>> {
>> R_CheckStack();
>> /* This is the point where GUI systems need to do enough event
>> processing to determine whether there is a user interrupt event
>> pending. Need to be careful not to do too much event
>> processing though: if event handlers written in R are allowed
>> to run at this point then we end up with concurrent R
>> evaluations and that can cause problems until we have proper
>> concurrency support. LT */
>> #if ( defined(HAVE_AQUA) || defined(Win32) )
>> R_ProcessEvents();
>> #else
>> if (R_interrupts_pending)
>> onintr();
>> #endif /* Win32 */
>> }
>>
>> So only on Windows or Mac do we do event processing. We could add a
>> R_PolledEvents() call in the #else bit to support this, though the
>> cautions in the comment do need to be kept in mind.
>
> I have been using the following patch to src/main/errors.c for a while
> without any obvious ill effects. Could we add this to r-devel (with
> necessary changes for Windows, if any)?
>
> -Deepayan
>
> Index: errors.c
> ===================================================================
> --- errors.c (revision 41764)
> +++ errors.c (working copy)
> @@ -39,6 +39,8 @@
> #include <R_ext/GraphicsEngine.h> /* for GEonExit */
> #include <Rmath.h> /* for imax2 */
>
> +#include <R_ext/eventloop.h>
> +
> #ifndef min
> #define min(a, b) (a<b?a:b)
> #endif
> @@ -117,6 +119,8 @@
> #if ( defined(HAVE_AQUA) || defined(Win32) )
> R_ProcessEvents();
> #else
> + R_PolledEvents();
> if (R_interrupts_pending)
> onintr();
> #endif /* Win32 */
>
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