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Re: [Visualpython-users] Mac IDLE fix
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From: James M. <mu...@pi...> - 2009-01-08 21:25:45
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I just realized I responed to Scott and not the entire list, so I paste that here. In the meantime. here are three issues listed the python tracker. 2754 6 days ago Mac version of IDLE doesn't scroll as expected open alextrob http://bugs.python.org/issue2754 3549 6 days ago Missing IDLE Preferences on Mac pending pchew http://bugs.python.org/issue3549 After reading the first one, I can verify that I see this effect too. The second one states that the Options->Configure menu has become IDLE- >Preferences on the mac, but there was a bug in how they checked the Tk version. So it should bite you if you have a version of Tk >= 8.4.10. It states that this was fixed on Friday and is in the trunk and backported to the 2.6 and 3.1 versions of Python. (3.1?) Anyway below is my previous message, which is probably out of date now. > I have tried out idle from both the current Enthought and the one that > comes with MacPython. The only things I see are: > > 1) If I open a new window, or open a file, occasionally I get an error > > RCNE SendEventToEventTarget (suom Moved ) failed, -50 > > This does not happen every time, and maybe it could happen selecting > other menu items. I haven't tried everything, and it is intermittent > on those where I do see it. I can't give an impression of whether it > occurs more frequently in one distribution than another, because after > playing for 5 minutes on each, I only have a handful of instances > total. Any comparison would no be statistically significant, but it > does not seem to be a large problem. Of course that might just be my > hardware. > > 2) If I click in one window and then back in source window, Focus is > changed to the source window but the cursor position is still where it > was when I was last in that window. Once focus has been shifted to > that window, cursor move properly when I click on text. This is a > "feature" that I see all the time on Macs. When I have two browser > windows open I click on a button in one, it has no effect unless that > window already has the focus. This is sometimes annoying for me in > that I don't want to have to click twice to get something to happen. > Other times I am happy that the button I just happen to click on while > trying to bring a window to the front didn't actually register the > click. > > 3) I haven't been able to get the scrollbar problem to occur, but > again if it is an intermittent problem, perhaps I just haven't tried > long enough. > > 4) The reason that the new Enthought distribution has a "Configure > IDLE" menu option is that they threw out the IDLE.app. Instead they > provide a simple shell script, ".command" which then runs "/Library/ > Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin/idle" in a console > window. So the configure problem is in IDLE.app, not idle. -Jim On Jan 8, 2009, at 12:47 PM, Bruce Sherwood wrote: > I've verified that the Visual 5.01 works with the latest MacPython > 2.5.4, and I've changed the Visual 5 download pages for Mac and > Windows > to reference the recent 2.5.4 release instead of 2.5.2. > > However, when I install MacPython 2.5.4, overwriting 2.5.2 but leaving > the Visual 5.01 files in place, Visual hangs (like the problem > sometimes > seen with Visual 5.01 when running for the first time on a Mac). > Reinstalling Visual 5.01 cures the problem. Strange. > > Bruce Sherwood > > Joe Heafner wrote: >> Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:26:09 -0500 >> From: Bruce Sherwood <Bru...@nc... >> <mailto:Bru...@nc...>> >> Subject: [Visualpython-users] Mac IDLE fix >> To: vpusers <vis...@li... >> <mailto:vis...@li...>> >> Message-ID: <496...@nc... >> <mailto:496...@nc...>> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed >> >> The version of IDLE that comes with Python on the Mac is >> defective. In >> particular, it does not offer a menu option to configure IDLE. >> If you >> would like to have a larger font size, to have your file >> automatically >> saved when you run (if you changed it), the ability to be able >> to make a >> change and re-run your program without being interrupted by >> being asked >> whether to save the file, and to have the Visual help available >> on the >> IDLE help menu, download the file idlerc.zip and unzip it in >> your home >> folder (e.g. /Users/tom). Depending on your Finder settings, you >> may not >> see the resulting folder ".idlerc", but it will be used by IDLE >> (in a >> Terminal you can see it if you execute "ls -a"). >> >> >> Seems to work fine for me. I've installed the new Mac VPython on >> all 12 >> of my MacBooks at work and we'll start using it tomorrow. Will >> applying >> MacPython 2.5.x updates break Visual? For some time, I was under the >> impression that my VPython installed via Fink was using Python 2.6 >> but I >> was mistaken. Now I've no idea what package caused Python 2.6 to be >> installed under Fink, but I can't remove it because something else >> depends on it. Funny... >> >> Joe >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. >> It is the best place to buy or sell services for >> just about anything Open Source. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Visualpython-users mailing list >> Vis...@li... >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/visualpython-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It is the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB > _______________________________________________ > Visualpython-users mailing list > Vis...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/visualpython-users |
