In article <nad-db7c40.14401625102...@news.gmane.org>, Ned Deily <n...@acm.org> wrote:
> In article <rowen-2ab42f.09155025102...@news.gmane.org>, > "Russell E. Owen" <ro...@uw.edu> wrote: > > > I just realized that the Checkbutton option "indicatoron" is being > > ignored on Mac OS X: the checkbox is always shown, even if indicatoron > > is false. > > > > I'm using ActiveState's Tcl/Tk 8.5.11, specifically: > > ActiveTcl8.5.11.1.295590-macosx10.5-i386-x86_64-threaded > > > > Has anyone else noticed this, and is there a workaround? It ruins the > > appearance of a lot of my application. > > > > I see that ActiveState now has version 8.5.12 available and I'll give > > that a try. Anyone know how reliable that is on Mac OS X? I've seen > > warnings of bugs, but I don't know if they were fixed in time for that > > release. > > Specifically with regard to using ActiveTcl 8.5.x with Python on OS X, > there are some bugs fixed in 8.5.12.0 and 8.5.12.1; however there are at > least two serious regressions that exist in 8.5.12.1. One is a Tk crash > when attempting to open IDLE's Preferences menu: there is now a patch > for all current versions of IDLE that works around the problem. Second > is a Tk crash when using the clipboard copy command. That problem > apparently has been fixed in the top-of-trunk of Cocoa Tk 8.5 (which was > formerly a separate branch but has now been merged into the main Tk 8.5 > support branch) subsequent to the release of ActiveTk 8.5.12.1. If > either of these problems might affect your use, I would recommend > staying with ActiveTcl 8.5.11.1 for the time being. > > http://www.python.org/download/mac/tcltk/ Thank you very much! Sounds safest to stick with 8.5.11.1 -- Russell _______________________________________________ Tkinter-discuss mailing list Tkinter-discuss@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss
