[issue15853] IDLE crashes selecting Preferences menu with OS X ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.5.12.1

2012-10-08 Thread David Pietz
David Pietz added the comment: It wasn't right on that page anymore but I poked around and fount the 8.5.11.1 and IDLE is no longer crashing when I go to preferences or when I cut and paste in the edit window (I didn't tell you about that did I ?- well it fixed that, too)!! thanks

[issue15853] IDLE crashes selecting Preferences menu with OS X ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.5.12.1

2012-09-02 Thread David Pietz
David Pietz added the comment: I thank you, gentlemen, for your kind attention to my issue. I hope it helps everyone in the long run. I, myself, became underwhelmed with these results of successfully opening preferences. I had been expecting to have a "|Startup|-|Shells open with co

[issue15853] IDLE crashes selecting Preferences menu with OS X ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.5.12.1

2012-09-02 Thread David Pietz
David Pietz added the comment: ned, That is exactly the output I received when I reverted to the ActiveState version, it failed and I ran your grep. Thank You for your interest. djp -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue15

[issue15853] IDLE crashes selecting Preferences menu with OS X ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.5.12.1

2012-09-02 Thread David Pietz
David Pietz added the comment: r.david.murray- Thank You for your inquiry. My recipe for this crash is (1) simply to start IDLE 3.2.3 in either Snow Leopard or Mountain Lion (2) click on the Bold "IDLE" menu in the menu bar and (3) click on menu item "preferences". At

[issue15853] Idle "quit unexpectedly" w/ attempted edit of preferences

2012-09-02 Thread David Pietz
New submission from David Pietz: Currently I am trying to edit idle preferences so I can edit a script which appends a log of Idle activity that I may review for study purposes. I could not really interpret much of the crash logs in console but there seem to be two types of memory errors. I