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Inyoka
Inyoka

Reputation: 1446

Tcl bug on Mavericks using tkinter and Python 3

Using tkinter with Python 3 on a Mac running Mavericks I have come across the following bug ...

https://www.python.org/download/mac/tcltk/#apple-8-5-9

As recommended I have installed ActiveTcl, and ensured it is in my PATH variable. However when I run tkinter code I still encounter the bug, which causes updates to the application to not appear until you physically interact with the interface by clicking with a mouse etc.

The symptoms include the text box not being updated as you type, and radio buttons requiring two clicks to update etc.

I have the preinstalled Python for Mac along with 3.3.5 and 3.4.1. All have the same issue despite reboots and changing python versions.

Has anyone managed to work around this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 296

Answers (1)

Inyoka
Inyoka

Reputation: 1446

Homebrew has just updated the Python3 install available to version 3.4.1. So I removed all Python 3.x installations from my machine.

Then installed Active Tcl from : http://www.activestate.com/activetcl/downloads

then ran :

brew install python3

This newer version of python now picked up the newly installed ActiveTcl (the previous version did not for some reason) and the problem is now resolved.

Upvotes: 0

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