I am not certain where the problem is or who to report it to, but there is a bug in TkAqua, Tkinter, or possibly OS X's windowing system. I am using a simple module on top of Tkinter for teaching an intro programming course. When I click the mouse in the Tkinter window, it often reports the wrong coordinates for the click most of the time. If I use idle and first click on the Tk Console window and then in the graphical window it seems to work. If I don't click in the Tk Console window or start Python from the Terminal, it almost always reports wrong values.
I am running Leopard now and tried both the built-in Python 2.5 and installing the version from python.org. Some of my students who are using Tiger report the same issue - I don't recall problems last year when using this on Tiger, but it's possible. On Windows, the coordinates are always correct. The graphics.py module built on top of Tkinter is available at: http://mcsp.wartburg.edu/zelle/python/ A simple example that shows the problem is: from graphics import * win = GraphWin('test', 800, 800) pt = win.getMouse() print pt.getX(), pt.getY() After clicking in the top left corner, it is clearly the wrong answer (it should be near 0, 0 depending on how accurate your click is). Any ideas on where the problem is, who to notify, etc.? Thanks, Dave _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
