New submission from Robin Dunn <ro...@alldunn.com>: This may have already been discussed but my searches didn't turn up anything concrete other than issue 4120 which is a similar but different problem. The problem I'm facing is that wxPython requires that version 6 of the common controls DLL be loaded in order for the GUI applications to use the themed version of the widgets on XP+ platforms, but it appears that this can only be done reliably if the manifest for the .exe is the one that specifies that version of the common controls assembly.
Prior to 2.6 I was able to install python[w].exe.manifest files next to the python executables from my installer and it would work fine, but now that Python 2.6 is built with MSVC9 and it has its own manifest that does not always work. Initial testing seems to indicate that using an external manifest still works ok on 32-bit platforms, but not on the 64-bit versions of Windows. I've tried ensuring that the wxPython .pyd's and the wxWidgets DLLs have an internal manifest that specifies the common controls assembly but that has not helped. The only thing I've been able to find that works for both 32 and 64 bit is to replace the internal manifest in python.exe with a new one that specifies both the CRT and the Common Controls assemblies, but that is obviously a Bad Thing for the install of an extension module to do, so I'm opening this issue to look for alternatives. So, does anybody have any experience or ideas on how to enable the wxPython extensions to load the new common controls assembly without needing to change the stock Python executables' manifest? If not, are there any objections to adding the common controls assembly to the stock manifest used for python.exe and pythonw.exe? ---------- components: Build, Windows messages: 80308 nosy: robind severity: normal status: open title: Specifying common controls DLL in manifest type: behavior versions: Python 2.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5019> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
