[Pythonmac-SIG] Problem with _tkInter 2.3?

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 1-mrt-04, at 15:05, Philippe de Rochambeau wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have just installed tcltk Aqua 4.8.5 from 
> http://www.maths.mq.edu.au/~steffen/tcltk/TclTkAqua/8.4.5.html and 
> _tkInter 2.3 using the Package Manager.
>
> When I run the hello.py example in the Extras/tkinter/guido directory, 
> a Hello World Window appears correctly, but when I click it, it won't 
> come forward and I get the following message:
> "SetFrontProcess failed,-606" in Terminal.
>
> The problem does not seem to come from tcltk Aqua since tcl/tk 
> programs run correctly on the command line and come forward correctly 
> when clicked on.
>
> Any help with this matter would be much appreciated.

The short answer is that you should use pythonw to start python scripts 
with a GUI.

On OSX command-line tools are not suppossed to have a GUI, and GUI 
toolkits don't work unless your application is inside an application 
bundle. pythonw sets up the right environment before starting a regular 
python interpreter.

Ronald