Darwin + Tkinter + Aqua-Tk? (Re: Macintosh Development)

[Greg Ewing]

David Eppstein wrote:
> 
> If you've installed a *different* version of Python (Unix Python, not
> MacPython), you can do this.  It doesn't come installed by default, and
> I have no idea whether it can do GUI stuff (unless you also install
> X-windows, or something).

In theory, it would seem that you could install Unix python
on Mac OS X together with the Aqua version of Tcl/Tk, and
run Tkinter stuff.

When I tried this recently, however, it didn't work. I
got a Tkinter window, but it was "dead" -- it didn't
respond to mouse clicks. Tcl applications run using
wish worked, but it wouldn't work from Python for
some reason.

I'd be interested if anyone happens to know how to
get this to work!

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