I was having the same problem. I tried Dannys idea it didnt help. It seemed to
me that something was wrong with the actual shortcut. So I went to the
directory with the idle.pyw (C:\Program Files\Python24\Lib\idlelib\) and made a
shortcut and now it wroks fine.
All the best,
Isr
-----Original Message-----
>From: "Danny Yoo"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: 1/9/05 4:48:51 AM
>To: "Jeffrey Thomas Peery"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Cc: "tutor@python.org"<tutor@python.org>
>Subject: Re: [Tutor] XP and python 2.4, some progress
>
>
>On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, Jeffrey Thomas Peery wrote:
>
>> I wasn't able to get the IDLE started in windows XP. I had it working
then I
>> upgraded to 2.4, then it didn't work so I switched back to 2.3, still
didn't
>> work so I'm back to 2.4. I did some looking around and I was able to get
>> the IDLE started by setting the shortcut on my desktop to:
>>
>> C:\Python24\python.exe C:\Python24\Lib\idlelib\idle.pyw -n
>
>
>Hi Jeff,
>
>Oh no, not again! *grin*
>
>
>> Not sure what this does. But is seems to get it going. What is going on
>> here? Also I get a console that appears with this message - I have no
>> idea what it means:
>>
>> Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving
>> theme element 'builtin-background'
>
>
>Ok, we've seen something like this before; what you are running into is
>probably the same thing. Mike and Jacob have found that IDLE broke on
>them when upgrading from Python 2.3 to Python 2.4. See the thread
>starting from:
>
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/2004-December/033672.html
>
>It turns out that the bug has to do with the way IDLE now handles its
>configuration files. If you've made some special configuration (like
>color customization), the bug causes IDLE not to start up cleanly because
>the customized config files aren't compatible.
>
>To work around this, rename your '.idlerc/' directory to something else
>temporarily. The '.idlerc' directory should be somewhere in your home
>within the 'Documents and Settings' directory. The '.idlerc/' directory
>contains all the user-defined settings that you've made to IDLE, so if we
>hide it, IDLE should try to regenerate a clean set.
>
>After renaming it to something else, try restarting IDLE with the icon,
>and see if it comes up now.
>
>
>I hope this helps!
>
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