Tix + Python + Windows?

Re: Tix + Python + Windows?

Yea - same problem some weeks ago. It seems to be a corrupted TCL script of
just minor significance.
I just deleted that line and the next braced section....
You need no tcl knowledge for that - just some feeling ;-)
No problem so far, but I do not use TIX tjat often - it was a try with PAGE
GUI-Builder

Kndly
Michael P

"Josh" <pushpin@media. mit.edu> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:8bf5dfd1.0 308121544.30d1c [email protected] gle.com...[color=blue]
> I've been trying to get Tix running with Python on Windows. Since
> there is no binary distributions of Tix for Windows, it seems the
> easiest way to install Tix is through IDiscovery's IDEStudio 1.9
> (http://starship.python.net/crew/mike/Idle/). This went fine and I
> ran the "Install Tix into Python" option at the end of the
> installation, with the target Python installation being the Python 2.2
> I just mentioned. I also ran the "Run Tix demos" option at the end of
> the installation, which also worked fine and presented the usual
> tixwidgets.py demo. However, when I tried running
>[color=green][color=darkred]
> >>> import Tix
> >>> root = Tix.Tk()[/color][/color]
>
> from a Python 2.2 prompt, I got the following error:
>
> error reading package index file
> C:/Python22/tcl/tix8.1/pkgIndex.tcl: invalid command name
> "lt}]}"
>
> The only mention of this problem I can find is at:
>
> http://issues.bigasterisk.com/hiss/issue36
>
> but there doesn't seem to be a clear resolution put forth. By the
> way, IDEStudio 1.9 comes with a stand-alone Python 2.1 binary and the
> Tix demo it ran at the end of installation was actually just a batch
> file containing
>
> tix8183.exe ..\..\Demos\Tcl \tixwidgets.tcl
>
> Has anyone else had any problems with this? Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> josh[/color]

Re: Tix + Python + Windows?

I too have had this problem on my Win machines (Linux doesn't have the
problem). (I actually got the message twice in a row every time I
instantiated Tk()).
So I commented out lines 30-37 of pkgIndex.tcl as follows:

....
# lt}]} {
# set tail [file join [pwd] $tail]
# break
# }
# }
# cd $pwd
# package ifneeded Tix 8.1[list load $tail Tix]
# unset dirs pwd elt tail
....


It seems to work fine now for me too (no error message). We'll see if
any new errors crop up.
The question is, does anyone have a current version of pkgIndex.tcl
without the obvious typo?





"Michael Peuser" <[email protected] > wrote in message news:<bhcpis$dh [email protected]>...[color=blue]
> Yea - same problem some weeks ago. It seems to be a corrupted TCL script of
> just minor significance.
> I just deleted that line and the next braced section....
> You need no tcl knowledge for that - just some feeling ;-)
> No problem so far, but I do not use TIX tjat often - it was a try with PAGE
> GUI-Builder
>
> Kndly
> Michael P
>
> "Josh" <pushpin@media. mit.edu> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:8bf5dfd1.0 308121544.30d1c [email protected] gle.com...[color=green]
> > I've been trying to get Tix running with Python on Windows. Since
> > there is no binary distributions of Tix for Windows, it seems the
> > easiest way to install Tix is through IDiscovery's IDEStudio 1.9
> > (http://starship.python.net/crew/mike/Idle/). This went fine and I
> > ran the "Install Tix into Python" option at the end of the
> > installation, with the target Python installation being the Python 2.2
> > I just mentioned. I also ran the "Run Tix demos" option at the end of
> > the installation, which also worked fine and presented the usual
> > tixwidgets.py demo. However, when I tried running
> >[color=darkred]
> > >>> import Tix
> > >>> root = Tix.Tk()[/color]
> >
> > from a Python 2.2 prompt, I got the following error:
> >
> > error reading package index file
> > C:/Python22/tcl/tix8.1/pkgIndex.tcl: invalid command name
> > "lt}]}"
> >
> > The only mention of this problem I can find is at:
> >
> > http://issues.bigasterisk.com/hiss/issue36
> >
> > but there doesn't seem to be a clear resolution put forth. By the
> > way, IDEStudio 1.9 comes with a stand-alone Python 2.1 binary and the
> > Tix demo it ran at the end of installation was actually just a batch
> > file containing
> >
> > tix8183.exe ..\..\Demos\Tcl \tixwidgets.tcl
> >
> > Has anyone else had any problems with this? Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > josh[/color][/color]