Bugs item #1080387, was opened at 2004-12-06 21:54 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by kbk You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1080387&group_id=5470
Category: IDLE Group: Python 2.4 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: projecktzero (projecktzero) Assigned to: Kurt B. Kaiser (kbk) >Summary: IDLE Themes and Keys Config not Robust Initial Comment: After uninstalling Python 2.3.4 on my Windows 2000 workstation, I installed Python 2.4. Unfortunately, IDLE refused to start up. I would just see some hard drive activity, then nothing. Getting some help from the tutor list(Danny Yoo), I was told to try... import idlelib.PyShell idlelib.PyShell.main() from the Python command prompt. IDLE fired up, but it complained about my color theme(which I had created in Python 2.3.4). Unfortunately, I do not have the errors/warnings. I deleted the color theme from IDLE, and now IDLE fires up without issue. The color theme must have been left over from Python 2.3.4. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Kurt B. Kaiser (kbk) Date: 2004-12-19 20:33 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=149084 This bug was caused by adding the colorization of built-in keywords. The current design of the themes and keybindings in the configuration system saves the entire modified config file instead of just the changes. When IDLE tried to load your config-highlight.cfg it got out of sync and died miserably. An initial fix would be to fix the config system to load the default bindings (as intended) when there was a problem with the user binding. But to fully fix the problem and make the config system robust, it appears to be necessary to redesign it to save only the changes, as it does for config-main.cfg and config-extensions.cfg. That way any new color items would be loaded from the default config-highlight.def. That's a bit of work. Maybe someone will step up. I've attached a patch to config-highlight.def which should take care of the problem. On Windows it's easiest, no doubt, to just type in the four missing lines. Or just delete config-highlights.cfg and recreate it, whichever is less work. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Kurt B. Kaiser (kbk) Date: 2004-12-07 16:44 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=149084 Thanks for the report. I'll try to reproduce the problem myself. What is supposed to happen is if IDLE has a problem retreiving the theme, it's supposed to load the default theme from config-highlight.def and if that fails it's supposed to use a fallback theme written into the code itself. Clearly all this complexity isn't working too well, and the error messages aren't particularly helpful. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: projecktzero (projecktzero) Date: 2004-12-07 09:35 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1173237 I was able to reproduce the problem. I'm attaching the warning messages in a text file. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: projecktzero (projecktzero) Date: 2004-12-07 08:08 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1173237 >From IDLE, I removed Deleted the Custom Theme. I will attempt to reproduce the issue and report on what warnings and/or errors appear from the Python command line. I'll uninstall 2.4. Reinstall 2.3.4. Add a theme to IDLE. Uninstall 2.3.4. Install 2.4 and see if I can capture the warnings/errors. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Kurt B. Kaiser (kbk) Date: 2004-12-07 00:13 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=149084 The (un)installer doesn't know about the user's .idlerc file. There should not be any incompatiblility between 2.3.4 and 2.4 regarding the color themes. It's too bad you didn't save the error messages. Could you describe exactly what you mean by "I deleted the color theme?" . What files or parts of files were removed? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1080387&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
