Tix and OS X

Kevin Walzer kw at codebykevin.com
Sat May 26 20:51:17 EDT 2007


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.

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