[Tutor] Problem with 2.4's IDLE

Danny Yoo dyoo at hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu
Wed Dec 1 19:38:55 CET 2004



[Danny]
> > I did some code diving.  Here's a sort of running dialog I'm having with
> > myself to see if we can figure this out.


[Kent]
> If I start IDLE from the shortcut in the Start / Programs / Python24
> menu, the open dialog defaults to C:=Python24. Looking at the shortcut
> properties (just right-click on IDLE in the menu) it says, Start in
> C:\Python24\. So if you start IDLE from the menu (or a similarly
> configured shortcut somewhere else) it should do what you want without
> changing any code.
>
> I think I'll change it to D:\ - I don' put my programs in the Python24
> directory...hey, it works!


Again, I definitely like Kent's approach much better than my own.  *grin*



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