pySOL

[Paul Moore]

On Sat, 07 Jul 2001 16:58:25 -0600, Paul Sidorsky <paulsid at home.com> wrote:

>RoadRunner_au wrote:
>
>> I am trying to get this game (pySOL) to run in windows 98, but as soon as the
>> windows comes up with the game it crashes with the following error.
>
>> TclError: unknown option "-dither"
>
>> Can anyone help with fixing this problem? thanks.
>
>I had the same problem under Windows ME.  I kludged a fix for it by
>changing the PySol source as follows:
>
>In module tk/tkutil.py, comment out lines 270 and 271.  They look like
>this:
>
>        #if dither is not None:
>        #    kw["dither"] = dither
>
>PySol (4.71) has worked great for me ever since.

I'll try that. FWIW, it looks like the 'dither' option is new in the latest
alpha of TCL/Tk, so maybe PySon depends on that. Grr - I hate relying on alpha
software :-( [Installing it, yes, *relying* on it, no...]

Paul.