Re: [Boa Constr] Boa 0.2.0 starting problem - Palette.py

[Krzysztof G. <go...@ch...>]

Riaan Booysen wrote:

>Hi Chris,
>
>  
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Messages like this I got few months ago. I supposed that the problem was 
>>in 'my own incompatibility' between wxGTK and wxPython.
>>(building wxWindows and wxPython from cvs was the solution).
>>    
>>
>
>No it was a plain old wxPython bug, dormant under Python 2.1 but
>an error under 2.2
>
>Actually this problem is just a tiny typo in buttons.py,
>
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/wxPython/lib/buttons.py", 
>    line 154, in SetBackgroundColour
>
>    wxWindow.SetBackgroundColour(self, colour)
>
>should be 
>
>    wxControl.SetBackgroundColour(self, colour)
>  
>
Thanks, it works :-)

>>Today it would be possible (I've just downgraded wxPython from 2.3.3 to 
>>2.3.2.1 - Gentoo 1.4rc1, python 2.2)  
>>-- but Boa 0.1.5 starts successfully :-)
>>
>>Maybe upgrading wxPython to 2.3.4 or 2.4.0 will be the solution, but im 
>>my case it's not so easy nowadays.
>>
>>I've read about 'deja vu', 'corner cases' so where may I find 'patched 
>>buttons.py in ExternalLib' ?
>>-but if it will be a problem(even small) I may upgrade to 2.3.4 or 2.4.0 
>>after a week or two, nowadays I may use 0.1.5, it works ok for me.
>>
>>Thanks in advance for help and (continuously) thanks, Riaan, for all 
>>Your work with Boa - it's really great.
>>    
>>
>
>Pleasure :)
>
>But on to your problem, I just saw that a last minute change to Palette.py
>broke the special casing for the spesific versions where this problem
>occurs. These things always happen right before a release :(
>
Keep smiling, I think that many of us don't like such 'special cases' 
within our software :-)
They produces troubles only, they need additional testing, they 
decreases quality of software
 .. and usually they are not neccessary, of course :-)

>
>Luckily not many people are still on 2.3.2, but it's a cold comfort.
>  
>
In my opinion keeping compatibility with older versions of wxPython and 
Python is not neccessary.
I think that current wxPython (and optionally the previous one) will be 
enough.
I hope that it's not only my opinion :-)

Cheers,

Chris