2011/1/24 Lou Pecora <lou_boog2...@yahoo.com>:
> I have an installation of Python 2.6.4 on my MacBook Pro (OS X 10.6) that by
> default uses X11 windows and dialogs rather than the Mac version of those GUI
> items. In my googling and exchanges on other support groups I've come down to
> the problem may be with the Tcl/Tk installation using the "generic" X11 GUI
> rather than the Mac version. Does anyone know how I can change that in the Tk
> part of the python framework?
>
> I think this problem came up in the iPython email list, but I didn't get
> enough
> info from the messages there.
>
> More Info: The python framework is part of the SAGE package which I installed
> from source. I did this on my Mac Pro (system 10.4) and it works well with
> Mac
> windows for matplotlib and Mac open/save dialogs for Tk calls. But on my
> MacBook Pro I get X11 windows and dialogs. I want the Mac versions.
>
> Even more info:
>
> If you're interested, here's the original message I put up on the SAGE support
> group and was told it's a problem with the type of Tcl/Tk installed.
>
> -- Lou Pecora
>
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>
> I have an installation of SAGE (from source) on my Mac laptop in which using
> the
> tcl/tk library to plot (using TKAgg backend) or call tk file open/save dialogs
> calls the X11 versions and not the native Mac versions of dialogs and windows.
> I want to get the Mac versions.
>
> I posted about this on this list recently and now after a response here and
> much
> googling I have the sense that the problem is that I have a SAGE package with
> an
> X11 version of the tk library rather than the Mac one. I compiled SAGE from
> source on my Mac laptop. That went perfectly. I don't know how I got the X11
> version since I also compiled SAGE from source on my Mac desktop where the
> plotting and file dialogs are the correct Mac versions, not X11. The only
> difference is that the laptop is Mac OS X 10.6 and the desktop is 10.4. If
> that
> matters, I don't know.
>
> Does anyone know how to get the Mac version installed in the SAGE
> source-compile
> installation? I have not found an answer to this elsewhere. I'm hoping
> someone
> here knows how this is done with the source installation.
I have a self-compiled Python 2.6.5 on Mac OS X 10.6.6, with
self-compiled matplotlib.
It shouldn't matter if mpl is self-compiled or not, since the TkAgg
backend just uses the Python Tkinter module. mpl uses some blitter
extension, but this shouldn't matter here too.
I don't have Sage installed, and I know little about Sage.
My Tkinter widgets, irrespective of mpl or not, have the Aqua look-and-feel.
I know that, using the binary distribution package of Python 2.x I
used before, I got *not real* Aqua look-and-feel, but it wasn't either
X11 iirc (i.e. no X11 spawned; assumed that spawning X11 implies that
is shows up in the Dock). With that binary, text boxes did not have
Aqua boundaries, but I do not remember precisely how buttons looked
like. Save dialogs were also not as you might want them to have; with
the self-compiled Python, they are like in any other Mac app. I
remeber vaguely that the Python binary Mac OS X packages are compiled
agains an older Tcl/Tk, for support of Mac OS X 10.4. Anyway, all
this is long ago.
I tried this on my system:
n0877:lib-dynload Friedrich$ pwd
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload
n0877:lib-dynload Friedrich$ otool -L _tkinter.so
_tkinter.so:
/System/Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework/Versions/8.5/Tcl
(compatibility version 8.5.0, current version 8.5.7)
/System/Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/Versions/8.5/Tk
(compatibility version 8.5.0, current version 8.5.7)
/usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current
version 438.0.0)
/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current
version 125.2.0)
It tells you what Tcl/Tk frameworks the Tkinter binary module is linked against.
Be warned that compiling mpl on Mac OS X 10.6 is a bit cumbersome due
to compiler issues.
Friedrich
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