[Tkinter-discuss] macPython, menubar won't display, new windows will not display widgets

[Joe Barfett]

Thank you for your response! Below is some code that works for me in Python 2.5.2 on Windows XP but will not work in Python 2.5.2 on Mac OSX 10.4 or 10.5. On the mac, I get a window appearing, but no menu bar. Given that it works on a PC, I'm thinking I need a different Python distro for my macs. Thanks very very much!
from Tkinter import *root = Tk()
def hello():    print "hello!"
# create a toplevel menumenubar = Menu(root)menubar.add_command(label="Hello!", command=hello)menubar.add_command(label="Quit!", command=root.quit)
# display the menuroot.config(menu=menubar)mainloop()

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   1. macPython, menubar won't display,    new windows will not
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Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 09:55:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: Joe Barfett <joebarfett at yahoo.ca>
To: tkinter-discuss at python.org
Subject: [Tkinter-discuss] macPython, menubar won't display,    new
    windows will not display widgets
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Hello, 
I've had problems getting menus to appear in my Tkinter applications using python 2.5.2 and Mac OSX tiger and leopard.
I've extensively searched for help and found only this link:
http://www.learningpython.com/2006/03/27/using-menus-in-tkinter/
someone else has had the same problem but no solution is posted. 
Additionally, I find that if I make a new window with toplevel, widgets on the window will not display immediately, but will after the window is refreshed. 
With Tile so easily available, I really don't want to invest in learning another GUI toolkit for python. Tkinter solves all my needs (I'm a scientific programmer) and really I just want to make a more friendly and user oriented scientific application.
Thanks if you can help! I can post source code if needed, but I'm hoping someone has just heard of the problem before and can point me in the right direction. Cheers from Canada!
joe ? 




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Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 13:28:21 -0400
From: Kevin Walzer <kw at codebykevin.com>
To: tkinter-discuss at python.org
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On 3/28/10 12:55 PM, Joe Barfett wrote:

> Thanks if you can help! I can post source code if needed, but I'm hoping
> someone has just heard of the problem before and can point me in the
> right direction. Cheers from Canada!
>


There are no systematic issues with Tkinter on OS X that I'm aware of: 
if a menu isn't displaying there's probably an issue with your code. 
Please post a code sample to help us reproduce the problem.

--Kevin

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Kevin Walzer
Code by Kevin
http://www.codebykevin.com


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