[Tutor] XP and python 2.4, some progress

[Isr Gish]

I was having the same problem. I tried Dannys idea it didnt help. It seemed to me that something was wrong with the actual shortcut. So I went to the directory with the idle.pyw (C:\Program Files\Python24\Lib\idlelib\) and made a shortcut and now it wroks fine.

All the best,
Isr

-----Original Message-----
   >From: "Danny Yoo"<dyoo at hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu>
   >Sent: 1/9/05 4:48:51 AM
   >To: "Jeffrey Thomas Peery"<jeffpeery at yahoo.com>
   >Cc: "tutor at python.org"<tutor at python.org>
   >Subject: Re: [Tutor] XP and python 2.4, some progress
     >
   >
   >On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, Jeffrey Thomas Peery wrote:
   >
   >> I wasn't able to get the IDLE started in windows XP. I had it working then I
   >> upgraded to 2.4, then it didn't work so I switched back to 2.3, still didn't
   >> work so I'm back to 2.4.  I did some looking around and I was able to get
   >> the IDLE started by setting the shortcut on my desktop to:
   >>
   >> C:\Python24\python.exe C:\Python24\Lib\idlelib\idle.pyw -n
   >
   >
   >Hi Jeff,
   >
   >Oh no, not again!  *grin*
   >
   >
   >> Not sure what this does. But is seems to get it going. What is going on
   >> here? Also I get a console that appears with this message - I have no
   >> idea what it means:
   >>
   >> Warning: configHandler.py - IdleConf.GetThemeDict - problem retrieving
   >> theme element 'builtin-background'
   >
   >
   >Ok, we've seen something like this before; what you are running into is
   >probably the same thing.  Mike and Jacob have found that IDLE broke on
   >them when upgrading from Python 2.3 to Python 2.4.  See the thread
   >starting from:
   >
   >    http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/2004-December/033672.html
   >
   >It turns out that the bug has to do with the way IDLE now handles its
   >configuration files.  If you've made some special configuration (like
   >color customization), the bug causes IDLE not to start up cleanly because
   >the customized config files aren't compatible.
   >
   >To work around this, rename your '.idlerc/' directory to something else
   >temporarily.  The '.idlerc' directory should be somewhere in your home
   >within the 'Documents and Settings' directory.  The '.idlerc/' directory
   >contains all the user-defined settings that you've made to IDLE, so if we
   >hide it, IDLE should try to regenerate a clean set.
   >
   >After renaming it to something else, try restarting IDLE with the icon,
   >and see if it comes up now.
   >
   >
   >I hope this helps!
   >
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