I am using the enthought distribution, I would hope that it was done
right but maybe not.
Then it may be an EPD bug, you might as on the EPD list.
As a possible temporary fix, when I had this problem, I was able to
copy and paste the name of a file into the OSX save box from another
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 09:58:11AM -0700, Christopher Barker wrote:
You also might try a different back-end. I'm not sure what EPD sets as
the default but there are sometimes odd Tk issues. EPD should support
wxPython (wxAgg), and maybe the macosx back-end.
I believe EPD's default is wxAgg.
I am not able to name plots when saving them from the plot menu in OSX. When
I click the save menu item I get the nice OSX save dialog box but I am not
able to type in the text field. I can select an existing file which then
fills the text field with that name but I am still not able to change the
I had this problem when I installed python from source code and did not use
the --enable-framework flag at the ./configure stage (learned I should have
it from some document - but can't remember if it was in matplotlib doc, on
the internet, in a python doc etc).
I am using the enthought
