[Pythonmac-SIG] Fwd: font-choice dialog in Snow Leopard

[Christopher Barker]

Charles Hartman wrote:
> Has anyone heard anything about when this release might happen?

well, there are preview builds for 2.9.0:

https://trac.orr.noaa.gov/trac/ResponderTools/wiki/TrajNotes/Regions

I'm not sure what the plans are for a 2.8.11

-Chris



> Also, when it does happen, if I just rebuild my app with py2app, is it 
> likely to work, or will I just break things worse?  I'm confused about 
> the Snow Leopard/32-bit/64-bit issues.  I'm using the python.org 
> <http://python.org> version 2.6.4 of Python and (I think) the latest 
> version of py2app.
> 
>> *From: *Cody Precord <codyprecord at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:codyprecord at gmail.com>>
>> *Date: *January 9, 2010 7:28:22 PM EST
>> *To: *Charles Hartman <charles.hartman at conncoll.edu 
>> <mailto:charles.hartman at conncoll.edu>>
>> *Subject: **Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] font-choice dialog in Snow Leopard*
>>
>> On Jan 9, 2010, at 6:23 PM, Charles Hartman wrote:
>>
>>> I admit I haven't looked into it in detail yet, and I will, but maybe 
>>> somebody can simplify the hunt.  In an app I last built with py2app 
>>> under Leopard, a standard dialog to choose a font (using wxPython's 
>>> wx.GetFontFromUser() ) appears on the screen for a brief flash and 
>>> then vanishes when I run the executable under Snow Leopard.  I could 
>>> begin by just rebuilding with py2app under Snow Leopard, but I'm 
>>> nervous, given all the S.L. alarms I've seen here.
>>
>> Its a bug in wxWidgets. It has been fixed already for the next 2.8 
>> release (2.8.11).
> 
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