[Edu-sig] mac python graphics

Jason R Briggs jasonrbriggs at gmail.com
Wed Dec 7 19:50:27 CET 2011


Argh. iPhone big finger button clumsiness. Don't know if my reply sent
or not. So trying again...

Try running idle in no sub process mode. Add -n to the cmd line args.

On 12/7/11, Andrew Harrington <aharrin at luc.edu> wrote:
> I just got my first Mac.  I know issues with Mac graphics have been
> discussed before, but I'm not sure what is relevant with OSX Lion.
>
> With the active state Tcl and the standard python.org python and idle
> appears fine.
> Still if I try running a Zelle graphic program inside or outside idle I get
> a freeze.
>
> The massive installation through MacPorts, that uses X11 for graphics makes
> my Zelle graphics library Tk based programs  work fine, but the X11 version
> of Idle has many of the common keyboard shortcuts not working, and is
> (intensionally) not the standard Apple menu setup.
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Dr. Andrew N. Harrington
>   Computer Science Department
>   Loyola University Chicago
> Lakeshore office in the Math Department: 205 Loyola Hall
> http://www.cs.luc.edu/~anh
> Phone: 773-915-7999
> Fax:    312-915-7998
> aharrin at luc.edu
>


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