In article <49919728.6020...@codebykevin.com>, Kevin Walzer <k...@codebykevin.com> wrote: > Ned Deily wrote: > > The patches included have been tested on 2.6, 2.7, 3.0, and 3.1 as > > indicated. I believe that, with these patches applied, IDLE.app and > > command line idle (bin/idle) on all of these systems will exhibit > > the same behavior regarding menus and key definitions.[1] In > > particular, the often missing-in-action Preferences menu option should > > be home for good. > My version of IDLE (Python 2.6.1, Tk 8.5.3) shows the preferences menu > just fine, under the IDLE application menu. (Right under "About IDLE." ) > > I submitted a patch on this a year or two ago because recent versions of > Tk Aqua (> 8.4.14) hard-code in the "preferences" menu in that location, > and IDLE was showing it twice. My patch tested for the Tk version and > then loaded only one prefs menu. > > I'm not sure if trunk versions of Python have broken this or not, but > please confirm the patch is needed before applying it.
That code is still there and should be unaffected by the new patches. The check for Tk Aqua >= 8.4.14 takes a different path and unconditionally adds the Preferences menu. For earlier versions of Tk, like the Apple-supplied one in 10.5 and with which the python.org 2.6.1 distribution is built, the menu altering fails in IDLE.app because of a premature import during initialization in idlemain. There are other menu issues addressed: for instance, bin/idle may have the Preferences menu but may also have a Options->Configure menu and a Windows (instead of Window) menu. Let me know if you run into any problems building with a non-Apple Tcl/Tk. > > [1] One minor difference: bin/idle still has an application name of > > "Python" in menus and the dock while IDLE.app is "IDLE". > That's a function of the Aqua environment--when IDLE is double-clicked > from an app bundle, it's IDLE.app; when it's run from the command-line, > it's run by Python.app. Can't be avoided. Well, one *could* cheat a bit, something like: $ cat idle #!/bin/sh open -a '/Applications/Python 2.6/IDLE.app' $@ To me, that's actually simpler in concept than what goes on under the covers to launch IDLE.app itself. -- Ned Deily, n...@acm.org _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
