2009/11/11 Jérôme Laheurte <[email protected]>: > So my shiny new iMac runs Snow Leopard, which ships Python compiled in > 64-bits mode. This seems to cause some problems, since wxWidgets is > based on Carbon and Apple does not seem to want to fully support 64- > bits Carbon (see > http://groups.google.com/group/wxpython-users/browse_thread/thread/d422356b11a0efe6 > ). So, first, before launching Task Coach from a command line, one > must issue the following command: > > defaults write com.apple.versioner.python Prefer-32-Bit -bool yes > > Then it somehow works, except that after some time (dunno how much), > such simple actions as double-clicking a task or clicking a toolbar > icon randomly fail because of a "Can't create window" error in > wxWidgets. After a reboot, this seems fixed, but will probably appear > again. This looks awfully similar to the problems we ran into when > trying to run the unit tests on the Mac OS buildslave. This doesn't > seem related to the 64 bits issue since it happens even when using the > bundle built on Tiger, which includes a fully 32-bits Python. > > All that to say that any bug report from a user running Snow Leopard > saying something along the lines of "clicking on xxx doesn't do > anything" should be answered by "please try to reboot", which is kind > of bad but we can't do anything about it :(
Are you saying that this also happens when you install Task Coach from the dmg that was build on my Mac Mini? That is really weird... Thanks, Frank
