Preview build in progress, known issues

[Robin Dunn]

Hi all,

Just a FYI to let you know that a preview build is in the pipeline and 
I'm now able to turn off the heater in my office as the CPUs are pumping 
out some extra thermal energy.  ;-)  Keep an eye on this list for 
R'bot's announcement.

There are a couple known issues with this build on OS X that I thought I 
better mention here since they are fairly noticeable:

* Toggle buttons on non-native toolbars have a drawing problem.  On OS X 
10.4 (and maybe 10.3, I didn't check there) the selected bitmap is not 
shown when the tool is toggled.  On 10.5 (Leopard) no image at all is 
shown when the tool is toggled, and the original doesn't come back when 
it toggled back to unselected, it just appears to vanish.  (See this bug 
if you want to track this: 
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1826474&group_id=9863&atid=109863) 
  This is a more problematic bug than you might think because things 
like wx.Toolbook use a non-native toolbar, and if you have floating 
toolbars in AUI then they are non-native.  :-(

* The binaries for Python 2.5 expect to be used with the user-installed 
MacPython from python.org, *not* the Apple installed Python 2.5 that 
ships with Leopard.  I'm kicking around some ideas on how to best deal 
with this, and if all goes well I'll be able to do something that is 
much more flexible than what we have now.  In the meantime if you want 
to play with this preview on Leopard you'll need to install a stock 
MacPython and use that.  To help you keep things separate you could 
install MacPython 2.4 instead of 2.5, then you'll know if you're running 
2.5 it is Apple's and if you're running 2.4 it is the stock build.


Finally, just to whet your appetite a little and generate some 
anticipation, ;-) this preview includes the new XRCed from Roman's work 
in the Google Summer of Code project, and also Editra, a nice 
programmer's editor from Cody Precord.  (See http://editra.org)



-- 
Robin Dunn
Software Craftsman
http://wxPython.org  Java give you jitters?  Relax with wxPython!