[Pythonmac-SIG] IDE & MacOS 8.5?

[Just van Rossum]

At 1:36 AM -0500 11/27/98, Doug Wyatt wrote:
>Strangely enough I just now discovered a PyIDE problem.
>
>I'm running MacOS 8.1 on a G3 with PyIDE 0.9b4 and Python 1.5.1.
>
>If I launch the IDE, quit, then launch it again, I crash during the drawing
>of the PyIDE splash screen.  I mucked around in Macsbug enough to isolate
>the crash in the Appearance Manager.  I unchecked "System-wide platinum
>appearance" in the Appearance control panel, and the crashes stopped.
>
>The calling chain is:
>	Python code calls DrawDialog
>	which calls DrawControls
>	where it crashes the second time it gets there
>
>On a hunch I went into Resorcerer, changed the dialog's background color,
>so as to create a 'dctb' resource, and the problem stopped.  Strange!

Hm, I can't seem to be able to reproduce this at all :-(. I use MacOS 8.1
with "System-wide platinum appearance" on a G3, too. Just a slightly newer
version of the IDE but I can't remember having changed much in the splash
screen code.

Just