[R] Layout of windows devices

[Prof Brian Ripley]

There is already support for this in the R-devel version: it like the 
current approach assumes one screen, though.  From the CHANGES file

  The initial size and position of the MDI frame can be set in Rconsole:
  see the comments in .../etc/Rconsole.  The initial position of the
  console window and graphics windows can be set in Rconsole and in the
  GUI Preferences editor.

That version is a long way off release (ca October) but feedback and
patches are welcome.

On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Duncan Murdoch wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 11:05:30 +0100, you wrote:
> 
> >Hi
> > 
> >Is there a way to specify the location on the screen where a new
> >graphics device opens, for example with a call to win.graph()?
> >I'm using R 1.7.0 on Windows XP.
> 
> There isn't currently, but it should be possible to add it.  The
> window creation is done in src/gnuwin32/devga.c.  
> 
> However, the user interface doesn't look easy.  Windows machines can
> have more than one monitor, so you'd want to be able to say which
> monitor it would appear on, as well as where.  I think you'd want to
> be able to query the monitor size to make the choice useful.  

That is already done, to put the graphics window at the top right.

> Is this something that you'd be able to do a first pass through?  I'd
> be happy to put it in if someone else did most of the work, but I've
> got a lot of other things in the works, and this looks too
> time-consuming for a relatively small payback.  After all, you can
> manually move the window after it is created.

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