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Title: Missing IDLE Preferences on Mac
Type: behavior Stage:
Components: IDLE, Installation, macOS Versions: Python 2.5
process
Status: closed Resolution: fixed
Dependencies: Superseder:
Assigned To: ronaldoussoren Nosy List: MLModel, cfr, kbk, pchew, ronaldoussoren
Priority: normal Keywords:

Created on 2008-08-13 21:29 by pchew, last changed 2022-04-11 14:56 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (5)
msg71100 - (view) Author: Paul Chew (pchew) Date: 2008-08-13 21:29
When the latest Mac installer (Python 2.5.2 for Macintosh OS X) is used on 
a new Mac (10.5.4) the resulting IDLE does not have a Preferences... entry 
in its File menu.  The only fix that I've found is to use the previous Mac 
installer (python-2.5.1-macosx.dmg).
msg71245 - (view) Author: (cfr) Date: 2008-08-16 22:26
Also with Python 2.5.2 on OS X 10.4.11 (PPC but it is the universal
installer): there is no Preferences... menu.

The help mentions an Options menu. I don't know if that is the
equivalent, but I cannot find that either.
msg73308 - (view) Author: Mitchell Model (MLModel) Date: 2008-09-16 20:48
Compiling with configure --enable-framework, from updated SVN sources
today plus the change suggested in issue 3628, IDLE works with both
2.6rc1 and 3.0b3.  There is still no options menu, but there is now a
Preferences item on the IDLE menu, where this more appropriately belongs
on the Mac.  However, IDLE Help still refers to the Options menu; on the
Mac, the Help information should refer to the Preferences item on the
IDLE menu instead of Options item, or at least add a comment that that's
where the functionality of Options appears on the Mac.
msg78791 - (view) Author: Ronald Oussoren (ronaldoussoren) * (Python committer) Date: 2009-01-02 13:11
The lack of a preferences menu is a bug: the current revisions of python 
contain some code to detect a recent version of Tcl/Tk, used to create the 
Preferences... menu in different way. Sadly enough this code is buggy, the 
end result is that you will not have a IDLE->Preferences...' menu when 
using the system version of Tcl/Tk.

Fixed in r68153 (python-trunk), r68154 (python-2.6), r68155 (python-3.1)
msg85078 - (view) Author: Kurt B. Kaiser (kbk) * (Python committer) Date: 2009-04-01 19:13
It appears that this s/b closed, but Tracker doesn't automagically 
close 'pending' issues like SF did.
History
Date User Action Args
2022-04-11 14:56:37adminsetgithub: 47799
2009-04-01 19:13:06kbksetstatus: pending -> closed

nosy: + kbk
messages: + msg85078

assignee: ronaldoussoren
2009-01-02 13:11:14ronaldoussorensetstatus: open -> pending
resolution: fixed
messages: + msg78791
nosy: + ronaldoussoren
2008-09-16 20:48:59MLModelsetnosy: + MLModel
messages: + msg73308
2008-08-16 22:26:10cfrsetnosy: + cfr
messages: + msg71245
2008-08-13 21:29:13pchewcreate