[Pythonmac-SIG] Tkinter problem drives me mad... Mad.... MAAAAAAAAAADDDDD!!!!

[Brian Lenihan]

On Tuesday, May 20, 2003, at 06:10 AM, Jack Jansen wrote
>
> Could someone who sees the problem currently please try the above  
> steps too, just to make sure that I'm not doing something silly?

I had the problem with TclTkAquaBI-8.4.2.0 and I also have it with the  
2.4.3 I just built.  I deleted everything from 2.4.2.0 using the hints  
here:  
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/ 
forum.php?thread_id=2190609&forum_id=3853

A minor tweak to _tkinter.c and setting wantobjects = 0 in Tkinter.py  
seems to make the problem go away and so far, everything else is still  
working.   The comments in the thread you started on the Mac-Tcl list,  
particularly those by Benjamin Riefenstahl, appear to be correct:   
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/ 
forum.php?thread_id=2190607&forum_id=3853

I don't understand the internals Tcl/Tk/Tkinter well enough to know why  
wanting Tcl objects would be the default setting in Tkinter.py.

diff -c -r1.159 _tkinter.c
*** _tkinter.c  19 May 2003 19:57:42 -0000      1.159
--- _tkinter.c  22 May 2003 06:32:24 -0000
***************
*** 1639,1644 ****
--- 1639,1645 ----
         char *name1, *name2=NULL;
         PyObject *res = NULL;
         Tcl_Obj *tres;
+      int len;

         if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "O&|s:getvar",
                               varname_converter, &name1, &name2))
***************
*** 1651,1657 ****
                 res = FromObj(self, tres);
         }
         else {
!               res = PyString_FromString(Tcl_GetString(tres));
         }
         LEAVE_OVERLAP_TCL
         return res;
--- 1652,1658 ----
                 res = FromObj(self, tres);
         }
         else {
!               res = PyString_FromString(Tcl_GetStringFromObj(tres,  
&len));
         }
         LEAVE_OVERLAP_TCL
         return res;