Old bug of resizing pyraf windows: cannot pull it larger, the more you pull, the more it gets smaller

[Firestar-Reimu]

Sometimes resizing pyraf windows leads to the bug: the more you pull, the more it gets smaller, and it is not under your control.

pyraf 2.2.0

[olebole]

I observed this on some older X11 programs, and I have no solution for this. It seems connected to high resolution screens and the resizing code of older apps. If you have a patch, a Pull Request would be appreciated.

[Firestar-Reimu]

Is this a pyraf issue or a iraf issue?

You say PyRAF has its own built-in graphics kernel to handle interactive IRAF graphics. I wonder if it is needed to rewrite the GUI in Qt or GTK or Python or whatsoever

[olebole]

This is a PyRAF issue (which uses Tk for graphics). IRAF itself doesn't have a graphics implementation; it needs either x11iraf or PyRAF. Again: a rewrite in a more modern system would be appreciated. Since PyRAF is no longer supported by STScI, this can come only from the community, which (in doubt) means: from you. There is no magic creation of such a library, there are only possible efforts of those who need it. Just dreaming of it will not make it happen. (On the other hand, one should always thing of whether the efforts are better targeted to the improvement of Astropy & Co.)