[Visualpython-users] Mainly Linux

[Bruce S. <ba...@an...>]

There is a new Idle zip file available, of interest mainly to Linux users 
(and there is a new full Linux package incorporating the Idle update).

On Linux there was a several-second delay in closing an Idle window. 
Stephen Gava, who is working on a new version of Idle (starting from Dave 
Scherer's original work), found a fix for this which I've incorporated. The 
fundamental problem seems to be that Python itself is using an older 
version of Tcl/Tk which misses a fix that gets rid of the slow window 
closing. Gava used a work-around in the Idle file EditorWindow.py.

Just in case there are unknown side effects for Linux users, I include in 
the idle_VPython folder the old version of EditorWindow.py as 
EditorWindow_slow_close.py, to which you could revert.

Bruce Sherwood

P.S. I also made the default Idle font size in config-unix.txt be 12 point 
instead of 10, after observing on several Linux and Unix systems running 
X11 that 10 invoked a very small font. I would be interested in comments 
from Linux users about what this default should be.