Tix and OS X

[Jeff Reavis]

On May 26, 8:51 pm, Kevin Walzer <k... at codebykevin.com> wrote:
> Jeff Reavis wrote:
> > Does python not ship with Tix for OS X? I know there was an issue with
> > 2.5.0 and Tix on Windows, and upgrading to 2.5.1 fixed it.
> > Unfortunately, I seem to have the same issue with OS X and 2.5.1. The
> > error I get is:
>
> >    self.tk.eval('package require Tix')
> >    _tkinter.TclError: can't find package Tix
>
> > I did find tkinter.so (Tkinter seems to work), but nothing matching
> > tix.so.
> > Is this a known issue? I haven't found any information about it on the
> > web or in this group.
>
> > Thanks in advance.
>
> > This is an Intel Mac, btw.
>
> > -jjr
>
> You have to have the Tcl Tix package installed--the Python module just
> wraps it.
>
> --
> Kevin Walzer
> Code by Kevinhttp://www.codebykevin.com

Thanks, but I still find it strange that the tix so is not included
for the Mac. When dll was missing in Python 2.5 it was considered a
bug (www.python.org/sf/1568240).

-jjr