PyEdit in Programming Python 2nd ed

[Laura Lewin]

Hi,
All the things I've said so far are valid, but here's the final story, which 
will also show up on the author's book updates page...
 
There seems to be a bug in ActivePython 2.1's implementation of Tkinter that 
makes a few of the book examples fail on Windows.  At the least, any example 
that uses the guimaker.py tool will not work as is under ActivePython 2.1.
This includes PyEdit, PyView, PyMail (its mail composition windows), and 
probably big_gui and shellgui.  However, all of these examples still work 
under the standard Python 2.1 release for Windows that is available from 
www.python.org.
 
The reason is that ActivePython 2.1's Tkinter for Windows does not recognize 
the cursor='hand2' and cursor='gumby' configuration options used by the 
guimaker.py module for toolbars and help buttons.  Note that these are 
standard
Tk cursor settings, and should work in all Tkinters.  ActivePython's Tkinter 
not only does not implement these options, it raises an exception for them, 
which makes programs that use these (and likely other) cursors fail.  This 
is 
a bug in ActivePython 2.1, and should be reported to ActiveState.

The settings do work as advertised in the standard Python 2.1 release.  But 
if 
you have installed ActivePython 2.1 and need a workaround for the problem, 
you 
have two options:
 
1) Either you can instead download and install the standard Python 2.1 
release 
from python.org (and install the win32all package separately if you want the 
extra Windows tool set that comes with AP).
 
2) Or, you can simply edit the guimaker.py script on your machine: find and 
delete the two "cursor=" configuration options in this script. The examples
work again after these edits, but you don't get the nice mouse cursors.
 
Again, this is a bug in ActivePython 2.1, not in the examples or the 
standard 
Python install.

Hope this helps!

Laura
LLewin at oreilly.com


>===== Original Message From "Fiel Cabral" <fscabral at bellsouth.net> =====
>Thank you for your assistance, but I have followed your instructions and
>read the README-root.txt file included in the CD. The PyEdit window is still
>not appearing. My machine is running Windows 98 SE, ActivePython-2.1.0.210,
>ActiveTcl-8.3.3.8330 and ActivePerl-5.6.0.623-MSWin32-x86-multi-thread. This
>could also be the result of a bug in this version of Tcl/Tk and I'll try
>installing other versions of Python.
>
>---------Fiel