[Tutor] IDLE 3.0 menu weirdness

[Yash]

Alan,

I do not observe the problem on my installation of
Python 3.0.1 (r301:69561, Feb 13 2009, 20:04:18) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)]
on Win Vista or on Win XP SP 3

I don't see any arrows.
Also the shortcut keywords work fine and I am able to use the mouse freely.

The only problem I get is that after I exit the IDLE, the pythonw.exe
process still keeps running. I have to manually kill the process
before I can launch the IDLE again.

Yash

>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Alan Gauld" <alan.gauld at btinternet.com>
> To: tutor at python.org
> Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 15:10:13 +0100
> Subject: [Tutor] IDLE 3.0 menu weirdness
> I tried posting this on the IDLE list but got no replies so....
>
> I've been updating my online tutorial to Python v3.
> I've come across a weird "feature" of IDLE 3:
> The menus show as a pair of up/down arrows! Clicking the arrows does nothing obvious.
>
> If you select a menu and then hit the letter of the menu item it works OK but you can't see it on screen so can't use the mouse. This is a real pain! Has anyone else found this? Or is it just me?
> And does anyone know what to do to fix it ?
>
> I'm using Windows XP Pro SP2 and Python 3.0
>
>>>> import sys
>>>> sys.version
>
> '3.0 (r30:67503, Dec 11 2008, 09:05:16) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)]'
>>>>
>
> IDLE for 2.5.1 works fine on the same machine
>
> --
> Alan G
> Author of the Learn to Program web site
> http://www.alan-g.me.uk/l2p/
>