> this is a bug in the UI library of AXIS, Tkinter.  it is believed to be fixed
> in master branch, and not affect the debian and ubuntu versions that we build
> 2.7 debs for.

If it's fixed I live with it for now.


> Specifically, a certain radiobutton uses the string "y" to identify the "y"
> axis, but because Tkinter is based on a string-typed language (Tcl), the value
> "y" can on occasion be turned into the value True or 1 when transferred to 
> Python
> (which is a strongly but dynamically typed language), which causes AXIS not to
> know which axis the +/- buttons are intended to move.
> 
> iirc machinekit has a hacky fix for this (explicit check for 1/true in a
> specific spot), perhaps you'd like to find it and apply it to your local tree.
> Since the fix is a hack and as far as we know it happens to be fixed by other
> code changes in master branch for ja, we haven't incorporated it in
> linuxcnc.org's software.
> 
> Jeff

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