Tkinter (Win98) Bombs but Tcl/Tk is OK

[David Fisher]

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From: "Bjorke" <bjorke at botzilla.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
To: <python-list at python.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000 2:09 AM
Subject: Tkinter (Win98) Bombs but Tcl/Tk is OK


> I've got two Win machines, with identical vrsions of Tcl/Tk and Python.
> The Win98 laptop fails to run tkinter -- i can do this:
> 
>    import _tkinter
>    import Tkinter
> 
> no problem, but when I hit
> 
>    Tkinter._test()
> 
> it fails (as do all Tkinter programs), bombing in _tkinter.create()
> saying:
> 
> TclError: Can't find a usable init.tcl in the following directories:
>     () ./lib/tcl8.0 C:/tcl8.0/library {C:/Program Files/library}
> 
> Where is it getting this? I have tcl installed in C:\Program Files\Tcl
> and it works flawlessly. I've uninstalled, re-installed, changed
> installation ordering, made sure that the autoexec paths are correct...
> ???
> 
> As I say, Tcl/Tk DOES work fine -- I use it for development on that
> laptop regularly, and the Tcl version is a new one

Does it work with version 8.0.5 that comes with the Win installer?