THIS PAGE IS OUT-OF-DATE

Rather than simply deleting this wiki page, I'm marking it as out-of-date until the relevant portions can be updated. In the meantime, if you want more up-to-date info on wxPython on Mac OS X you should see wxPythonOSX Issues

Introduction

This is a working scratchpad so that multiple people can collaborate on identifying Bugs and Issues with wxPythonMac and PythonCard. I had a big list that I wanted to share with Dan Shafer and the wxPython Mac mailing list.

The initial list is based on wxPython Mac Rev B release.

Contributors

• [KEA] Kevin Altis
• [DGS] Dan Shafer
• [SDD] Seth Delackner

Revision History

• 2002-06-04 [KEA] Updated for MachoPython-2.2.1-3.dmg and wxMacPython-2002-05-17.dmg releases

• 2002-05-09 [SDD] Added another wxPython Mac issue
• 2002-04-28 [KEA] Created
• 2002-04-28 [DGS] Updated and commented

OS X issues

• names longer than 31 chars getting truncated in tar.gz file such as SourceForgeTracker.original.rsrc.py

MachoPython issues

• locale module doesn't work

wxPython Mac Issues

• make sure to use sys.platform == 'darwin' and/or wx.wxPlatform == 'WXMAC' check for OS X specific code

• wxFont. Will it support face names in the future?
• wxTextCtrl does not autoscroll (related to lack of scrollbars?)
• wxTextCtrl with wxTE_MULTILINE style has no scrollbars

• wxTextCtrl takes and returns \r instead of \n. Regardless of what newline style it uses internally, wxTextCtrl should always accept \n for input and output methods: GetValue, SetValue, AppendText, etc.

• wxTextCtrl when using the wxTE_RICH/wxTE_RICH2 styles can't select text of a field that isn't editable. Should be able to if it is supposed to work like Windows and GTK I think. If wxTE_MULTILINE without wxTE_RICH doesn't have a small field size limit then that would probably be adequate.

• wxTextCtrl looks like PositionToXY is returning bogus numbers. Probably need to do a minimal test app. The PythonCard findfiles sample uses something like

  clickLine = event.GetEventObject().PositionToXY(event.GetEventObject().GetInsertionPoint())[1] + 1

to figure out the line the user clicked on in a locked field, but it isn't working on OS X.

• menus Cut, Copy, Paste, Exit (Alt+X) all get changed to Mac equivelants. I'm assuming this is by design, but some keyboard bindings don't seem to work, so there might be a bug here. Still investigating.
• wxFrame windows without menubars are too tall, basically the height of the Mac menubar.
• don't use a y position of 0 because that will put the window underneath the Mac menubar. Perhaps wxMac should compensate since on Windows and Linux a window position like (0, 0) is valid.
• window resize icon in the bottom-right of a window means that different whitespace strategies need to be used to avoid the resize icon overlapping other controls when the window doesn't have a statusbar.

• wxWave sound playback doesn't work. Would it be possible to bind to QuickTime library routines in wxMac for sound playback?

• when switching to a window that has no menubar, the existing menubar is cleared. is this going to cause an issue for tool palettes and other child windows of the top level wxFrame?

• Unicode / WorldScript support. Is this possible? A long-term goal?

• wxStatusBar doesn't display wxMenu item help text. I tried this with the same app on windows and OS X [SDD].

PythonCard Issues

• file script launching. [KEA] I think this is fixed in cvs for samples.py. I switched to

os.spawnv(os.P_NOWAIT, sys.executable, [sys.executable, filename] + args)

One difference I noted on the Mac is that the launched app does not automatically come to the foreground like it does on Windows. Not sure if there is a way to fix that or not.

• font changes for 2.3.3. This issue is still open. I've changed widget.py to leave self._font as None until needed, but the changes to family handling in 2.3.3 are still causing some problems.

• wxYield() broken? PythonCard textRouter sample. Actually this looks like a problem with a missing drag and drop module

• dbBrowser sample. What needs to be done to get MySQL working on OS X?
• textIndexer and addressesZODB samples both need StandaloneZODB. Has anyone compiled it for OS X? If so, we can make the binary available with the Windows binary that Neil built.

• check default sizes (-2, -2) and (-1, -1) with Image (wxStaticBitmap) and ImageButton (wxBitmapButton) components. The tictactoe sample looks like the components have borders, which shouldn't be there.

• resourcEditor. possibly using CaptureMouse() incorrectly on darwin.

[DGS] 7/31/02 - I assume the above reference covers this, but drag-and-drop of components placed into resourceEditor doesn't work at all as far as I can tell, which makes creating PythonCard apps entirely too hard if my experience is accurate.