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To: Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de>
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From: Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se>
Subject: Re: beginners choice: wx or tk?
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In a message of Sat, 11 Jul 2015 13:56:09 +0200, Christian Gollwitzer writes:
>Am 11.07.15 um 13:27 schrieb Laura Creighton:
>> Also, if you need your app to work with MacOS, be warned that you
>> will need an older version of tk than the most recent one.
>> This information is current: https://www.python.org/download/mac/tcltk/
>> Don't use 8.6
>
>I'm not sure how recent this really is. Kevin Walzer has done a lot of 
>work to get recent Tcl/Tk (i.e. 8.6) running on OSX. The most recent 
>ActiveTcl release is 8.6.4.1. I'm using exclusively Tk 8.6 on the Mac 
>without problems.
>
>	Christian

Unless I was misinformed 2 weeks or so ago when I asked, that is the
problem.  Tcl/Tk 8.6 works (and is shipped with) OSX, but tkinter
and idle don't work with it.  We will see what Ned Deily says
when he gets around to reading this.

Laura