[issue16177] Typing left parenthesis in IDLE causes intermittent Cocoa Tk crash on OS X

Tom Goddard added the comment: This Mac Tk bug was supposedly fixed in 2016 or 2017. Details are in the following Tk ticket. http://core.tcl.tk/tk/tktview/c84f660833546b1b84e7 The previous URL to the Tk ticket no longer works. In case the above URL also goes bad, the id number

[issue16177] Typing left parenthesis in IDLE causes intermittent Cocoa Tk crash on OS X

Change by Terry J. Reedy : -- assignee: -> terry.reedy components: +IDLE, macOS nosy: +ronaldoussoren, terry.reedy ___ Python tracker ___

[issue16177] Typing left parenthesis in IDLE causes intermittent Cocoa Tk crash on OS X

Brian Keegan added the comment: I was also using a dual-screen setup: laptop + external display. On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 1:07 AM, Ned Deily rep...@bugs.python.org wrote: Ned Deily added the comment: Thanks, Tom, nice writeup! If any of the other people who have seen this crash are still

[issue16177] Typing left parenthesis in IDLE causes intermittent Cocoa Tk crash on OS X

Ned Deily added the comment: Thanks for the confirmation, Brian. I certainly would not have thought to ask about multiple monitors. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue16177

[issue16177] Typing left parenthesis in IDLE causes intermittent Cocoa Tk crash on OS X

Tom Goddard added the comment: Ok I reported this as a Mac Tk bug and gave a very simple way to reproduce it. http://core.tcl.tk/tk/tktview?name=3Dc84f660833 -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue16177

[issue16177] Typing left parenthesis in IDLE causes intermittent Cocoa Tk crash on OS X

Ned Deily added the comment: Thanks, Tom, nice writeup! If any of the other people who have seen this crash are still around, it would be interesting to know if they also were using more than one monitor. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue16177] Typing left parenthesis in IDLE causes intermittent Cocoa Tk crash on OS X

Tom Goddard added the comment: I've seen this crash about 50 times in the UCSF Chimera molecular visualization package, same traceback, and it is caused when a tooltip is raised, but not from IDLE. The key observation is that it only happens on dual display systems where the second display

[issue16177] Typing left parenthesis in IDLE causes intermittent Cocoa Tk crash on OS X

Tom Goddard added the comment: More testing shows that this Mac Tk crash with dual displays only happens when the second display is partly or entirely above the primary display in the Mac display system preferences. An attempt to show the tooltip on the second display above the top of the

[issue16177] Typing left parenthesis in IDLE causes intermittent Cocoa Tk crash on OS X

Ned Deily added the comment: Tom, thanks for the detailed analysis. It seems pretty clear that this is not a Python problem and there's really nothing we can do about it. It would be great if you would be willing to open an issue on the Tcl/Tk project's issue tracker so that they are aware

[issue16177] Typing left parenthesis in IDLE causes intermittent Cocoa Tk crash on OS X

Ned Deily added the comment: Thanks for the report, Eric. It confirms that the problem still exists with everything current. I'm sorry you are hitting the crash. Without being able to reliably reproduce the problem, it's difficult to be able to help. Are there any hints you can give about