[Tutor] Weird tkFont behavior

[Steve Willoughby]

On 16-Jun-11 09:52, Steve Willoughby wrote:
> I'm probably just doing something stupid, but I can't spot the error. I
> hope someone here can see what I'm looking past, or knows of a known
> issue with these widgets.

I think I solved it, actually.. as I was typing this up, I wondered in 
passing about this:

> of the other fonts I configured for the other tags. Do I need to keep
> other references to the tkFont objects somewhere else or something?

and I think that was it.  I recoded it so that I store the Font objects 
independently of the tag configuration call, in case they were getting 
destroyed accidentally somewhere (I know you have to do that with other 
Tk objects such as images), and now I can't get the app to fail.

If interested, here's the new setup code:

|  f=Tkinter.Text(self, ...)
|
|  self.font_tags = {}
|  for tag, weight, slant, others in (
|    ('rm', tkFont.NORMAL, tkFont.ROMAN,  {}),
|    ('bf', tkFont.BOLD,   tkFont.ROMAN,  {}),
|    ('it', tkFont.NORMAL, tkFont.ITALIC, {}),
|    ('bi', tkFont.BOLD,   tkFont.ITALIC, {}),
|    ('ref',tkFont.NORMAL, tkFont.ITALIC, {'foreground':'blue', 
'underline':True}),
|  ):
|      self.font_tags[tag] = tkFont.Font(family='Helvetica', size=10, 
weight=weight, slant=slant)
|      f.tag_config(tag, font=self.font_tags[tag], **others)


(Added "|" in the left column to hopefully get the text to indent right 
with some mail readers.  That's not part of the code, of course.)

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