[Pythoncard-users] IDLE and the PythonCardPrototype

[Kevin A. <al...@se...>]

I don't use IDLE myself, but if IDLE is like PythonWin, you should not
launch a script from within IDLE. There will be contention issues between
tkinter and wxPython. The only way you can run a GUI app from within an IDE
is if the IDE launches the script as a completely separate process. I
believe Boa and Komodo do this correctly.

The safe way to run a script is to either run it from the command prompt  or
double-click on the script. You can edit in your favorite IDE, save, then
switch to the command prompt or dir/file browser (Explorer in Windows) to
run the script, then after you quit the app, go back to the editor and
continue editing.

This isn't an issue specific to PythonCard, but I thought it should be
addressed. Someone that knows more than I about Python IDEs should chime in
with more info.

ka