Re: [MACTCL] Tk 8.5.12.x crashes opening IDLE Preferences menu

[Kevin W. <kw...@co...>]

Hi Ned,

> Who is Neil??

Sorry for the misnomer. :}

>
> I didn't try the core-8-5-branch earlier because it wasn't clear from
> the checkin comments what state the merge was in.  I just did a quick
> build using it and I have the same results as you report.  The IDLE
> Preferences crash is still present ...

I'll have to do a bit more digging to see if I can figure this out. The 
previous mousewheel bug you filed (3520202) didn't seem to be visible in 
Tk, but was exposed somehow by Tkinter's code. Maybe something similar 
is at work here.

>
>>> I've also opened another Tk issue (#3575681) concerning another Cocoa Tk
>>> crasher when using clipboard copy in IDLE, a regression that was
>>> introduced in 8.5.12.0 and only partially fixed in ActiveTcl 8.5.12.1.
>> I think I can conclusively say that this bug is outdated; I can't
>> reproduce the clipboard issue in either Wish or IDLE, build of
>> core-8-5-branch. I've left the bug report open to allow further
>> comments, but it works for me and I will close it soon.
>
> ... and the IDLE clipboard crash is no longer reproducible.
>

OK, I'll close that bug later today.

K


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