Re: [MACTCL] Aqua Tk 8.5/8.6 problem on OS X 10.9 Mavericks

[Jeff H. <je...@ac...>]

We are building updated ActiveTcl installations for 8.5 and 8.6 with this patch this weekend.  If someone wants to test from that, let me know.

Jeff

On 2013-10-27, at 1:46 PM, Kevin Walzer <kw...@co...> wrote:

> Hi Ned,
> 
> On 10/23/13, 4:06 PM, Ned Deily wrote:
>> Now that OS 10.9 Mavericks has been released (and at no cost), people are
>> updating to it and running into a problem with Aqua Tk.  I ran into the
>> problem with Python's IDLE but it seems to affect other multi-window Tk
>> applications, as it can be reproduced using wish demos.   Basically, the
>> problem is that Tk windows don't get automatically redrawn when the mouse is
>> used to change the active window and focus.  I've described the details here:
>> 
>> https://core.tcl.tk/tk/tktview?name=53f7a1b553
>> 
>> As it affects current versions of ActiveTcl 8.5 and 8.6, I also opened an
>> ActiveTcl issue:
>> 
>> http://bugs.activestate.com/show_bug.cgi?id=101210
>> 
>> As noted in the Tk issue above, the Apple-supplied Tk 8.5.9 does not have this
>> problem but that version has other, serious problems that have been fixed in
>> newer versions of Tk 8.5, for example, immediately crashing when typing a
>> composing character in a text field (like option-u for US Extended input
>> methods).  Also as noted, one workaround appears to be to force Tcl/Tk to run
>> in 32-bit mode, which may not be possible for some applications if they depend
>> on non-universal libraries.
> 
> Daniel Steffen provided me a patch for the issue that he devised during 
> the development of Mavericks, and which he applied to Apple's private 
> branch of Tk-Cocoa (essentially the old 8.5.9 branch, as you noted in 
> the bug report). Daniel's patch is why the behavior isn't visible in 
> Apple's system-provided Tk, because it was fixed already. :-) Now that 
> Mavericks is out he was able to provide the patch for upstream use.
> 
> After installing Mavericks and testing with my existing build of Tk, I 
> did see the behavior. After doing a fresh checkout of trunk and 8.5, 
> applying the patch, and rebuilding Tcl/Tk, I don't see any of the 
> behavior indicated. As a result I believe this patch solves the problem 
> and I have committed it.
> 
> Thanks again for the report, and thanks to Daniel for the patch.
> 
> Best,
> Kevin
> 
> 
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