[Tkinter-discuss] Help related to tkinter on Mac

[Mark Roseman]

Hi Cam, I tried it on my system and it actually worked. I’m guessing it’s because I have a newer version of Tk installed than the system one.

Have your testers download Tcl/Tk from here, install it, and see what happens.

	https://www.activestate.com/activetcl/downloads <https://www.activestate.com/activetcl/downloads>

Mark



> On Mar 27, 2018, at 4:54 AM, Cam Farnell <msa01 at bitflipper.ca> wrote:
> 
> Hello All,
> 
> I've developed a simple flowcharting program in Python 2.7 + Tkinter which I am about to release as open source. All the development was done on an Xubuntu box so it works under Linux and, thanks to the magic of VirtualBox, I've tried it successfully under a couple of version of Windows. Under Macs it is more problematic. What I've found so far is:
> 
> - If you run it under the Python 2.7 that comes with the machine then you get a message about it not finding a config file, which is normal for first-time startup, but then it hangs without even starting the GUI and there is no way to interrupt it to see what is going on.
> 
> - If you run it under Python 2.7 which was installed with the package manager "brew" (https://brew.sh/) then it works.
> 
> Neither of the people who tried if for me on their Macs know much about Python, and I certainly don't know much about Macs.
> 
> Therefore I'm hoping that someone on this list who has a Mac and knows something about Python might be willing to give it a try. Based on that I could make changes or at least update the web site to let Mac users know what the situation is.
> 
> The web site with information and the download link is:
> 
>    http://www.retroflow.ca
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> Cam Farnell
> Halifax, NS, Canada
> 
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