On Jan 4, 2:25 pm, Ned Deily <n...@acm.org> wrote: > In article > <ec96e1391001040805j13b4e5cet3f1b74e9a81ed...@mail.gmail.com>, > Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kap...@case.edu> wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Mensanator <mensana...@aol.com> wrote: > > > ...because there's no [Options] menu on the shell window? > > > > Or at least give me a clue to how to use Courier New font? > > > > For some inscrutable reason, depite the plethora of formatting tools, > > > someone decided that proportional spaced fonts ought to be the > > > default for IDLE. > > Mac Applications don't have "options" menus. They have a "preferences" > > pane which is the second item in the application menu (the one that > > takes the name of the active program) and has a keyboard shortcut of > > Cmd-, > > > Apple's user-interface guidelines are pretty specific, so you'll find > > that this works for all native OS X (i.e. not X11) applications. > > But be aware that IDLE on OS X has had various problems with missing > and/or duplicate menu items. IIRC, the current python.org OS X IDLEs > (2.6.4 and 3.1.1) should be OK and you can modify the font via the > Preferences menu
No, I already checked. Both system preferences and X11 preferences. > (and currently changed preferences apply to all > versions of IDLE). Note also that there are two different ways to > launch the OS X IDLE. python.org installers put a double-clickable > IDLE.app in /Applications/Python n.x. Yeah, I've still got that one installed, but it has the broken distutils from python.org. > There is also a command-line > "idlen.n" in /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/n.n/bin > which, optionally, has a symlink from /usr/local/bin. AARRGGHH!!! I'm pulling my hair out! I haven't been using the IDLE from the broken python.org disk image. I assume I've been using the IDLE from macports. From the command prompt I've been typing "idle". This launches a "shell" window which appears to have an X11 parent application for which there are no "preferences" applicable to fonts. However, if I use the quick launcher from the python.org, I get a "shell" whose parent is named "IDLE"! And that one has a completely different preferences, one similar the the Windows Configure which allows me to set the font! Now, if I close this shell and start IDLE from the command line again, I still get a "shell" with an X11 parent, but, lo and behold, the font has changed to what I had previously set with the IDLE parent. Course, I can't import gmpy, cause the python.org version can't compile it, so I still have to use the macports install of 3.1, but that's ok, once I use the IDLE application to set the preferences, I can switch back to the X11 version and the preferences will follow. Wow! That was fun. Thanks for the help everyone. Don't ask me to explain what I just did, sometimes you just have to let art flow over you. > > -- > Ned Deily, > n...@acm.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
