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From: Bruce S. <Bru...@nc...> - 2009-01-07 18:26:16
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This has been added to the Visual 5 Mac download page: 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"). |
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From: James M. <mu...@pi...> - 2009-01-08 04:19:38
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Bruce, I have both the MacPython and Enthought versions of 2.5.2 on my macbook pro. While the IDLE in MacPython is broken as you say, the one shipped with the Enthought distribution appears to be fine. Now they both claim to be IDLE 1.2.2, and this seemed confusing, so I looked into the Enthought distribution a little more. I had previous versions of it so I checked IDLE in each of them EPD 2.5.2001 released July 2008 - IDLE missing configure menu EPD with Py2.5 4.0.30002 released Oct 2008 - IDLE missing configure menu EPD Py2.5 4.1.30101 released Dec 2008 - IDLE has configure menu I see that you were complaining about idle on the idle-dev mailing list back in November, but I don't see any note to indicate a fix going in, so I am still confused as to why the Enthought IDLE seems to work, but the MacPython one is still broken. I also haven't seen any mouse problems, but that is probably because I am just not trying the right thing to trigger them. -Jim On Jan 7, 2009, at 1:26 PM, Bruce Sherwood wrote: > This has been added to the Visual 5 Mac download page: > > 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"). > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 |
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From: Bruce S. <Bru...@nc...> - 2009-01-08 04:40:38
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Mouse problems I've seen on the Mac include the scrollbar "sticking" (failing to slide), and clicking into text only to have the insertion point be somewhere else than where you clicked. David Scherer found that he could (temporarily?) fix such problems by clicking in the title bar of the IDLE window. I see that there is now a Python 2.5.4 for the Mac, but its IDLE is still broken. For instance, there still is no menu option to configure IDLE. Bruce Sherwood James Mueller wrote: > Bruce, > I have both the MacPython and Enthought versions of 2.5.2 on my > macbook pro. While the IDLE in MacPython is broken as you say, the one > shipped with the Enthought distribution appears to be fine. Now they > both claim to be IDLE 1.2.2, and this seemed confusing, so I looked into > the Enthought distribution a little more. I had previous versions of it > so I checked IDLE in each of them > > EPD 2.5.2001 released July 2008 - IDLE missing configure menu > EPD with Py2.5 4.0.30002 released Oct 2008 - IDLE missing configure menu > EPD Py2.5 4.1.30101 released Dec 2008 - IDLE has configure menu > > I see that you were complaining about idle on the idle-dev mailing list > back in November, but I don't see any note to indicate a fix going in, > so I am still confused as to why the Enthought IDLE seems to work, but > the MacPython one is still broken. > > I also haven't seen any mouse problems, but that is probably because I > am just not trying the right thing to trigger them. > > -Jim > > > On Jan 7, 2009, at 1:26 PM, Bruce Sherwood wrote: > >> This has been added to the Visual 5 Mac download page: >> >> 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"). >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> 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 > |
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From: Scott D. D. <Sco...@Ac...> - 2009-01-08 05:24:38
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Bruce Sherwood wrote: > Mouse problems I've seen on the Mac include the scrollbar "sticking" > (failing to slide), and clicking into text only to have the insertion > point be somewhere else than where you clicked. David Scherer found that > he could (temporarily?) fix such problems by clicking in the title bar > of the IDLE window. To get evidence of this -- start idle from a terminal window with a "python25 -m idlelib.idle" where python25 is the path to your python executable. You get output on stderr each time the mouse drops a line of mouse positioning. --Scott David Daniels Sco...@Ac... |
