[wxPython-users] wxPython 2.8 RC - Call for testers! :-)

[David Woods]

I've done some preliminary testing of the Nov. 29, 2006 wxPython 2.8 
Release Candidate with Transana, and found only one problem.  I tested 
the unicode version on Windows, on OS X 10.3 on a PPC Mac, and on OS X 
10.4 on an Intel Mac.

It properly supports all of the video formats I had trouble with in the 
wxPython 2.7 line with no difficulty.  Thank you for all the work you 
did to fix that.

I've had unicode problems with the StyledTextCtrl for a number of 
wxPython versions, as I've reported here before.  The attached code 
runs okay on Windows, with the exception of Korean characters, which 
show up in wx.StaticText but not in wx.STC except when mixed on the 
same line with Chinese characters.  I don't think this has changed in 
the last several wxPython versions.

On OS X 10.3, under wxPython 2.6.3.2-unicode, accented European 
characters show up fine, but Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters 
cause whole lines of text to disappear, even English text on 
mixed-language lines.  Unfortunately, a number of common (at least in 
Transana) characters, such as the character Word for Mac uses as the 
ellipsis, also cause this problem, so when a user imports a document 
from Word, I have to scan it for problematic characters.  While the 
Asian language characters show the problem most easily, the non-text 
(special character) problems are what have caused me the most 
headaches.  I can say I don't support Chinese, etc. on the Mac.  I 
can't say I don't support the ellipsis, the time code, the Euro symbol, 
and other characters I'm not aware of, especially when I'm trying to 
allow users to import documents.

On OS X 10.3, under wxPython 2.8.0.0-unicode (RC 20061129), I get the 
following error message:

wx._core.PyAssertionError: C++ assertion "status == noErr" failed at 
../src/mac/carbon/font.cpp(366) in MacFindFont(): couldn't modify ATSU 
style

This is NOT an improvement, though I wonder if this is at least an 
indication that the underlying problem is being trapped now.  If so, I 
can adapt to that.

I haven't tested this on the OS X 10.4 Intel-Mac, as I don't have the 
appropriate languages installed on that computer.  However, I did see 
this same error message when importing a transcript the other day, so 
I'm betting the issue is the same there.

I'll keep using 2.8.0.0-unicode and will let you know if I run into any 
other problems.

David Woods, Ph.D.
Transana Lead Developer
Wisconsin Center for Education Research
University of Wisconsin, Madison
http://www.transana.org



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On Nov 30, 2006, at 6:38 PM, Kevin Ollivier wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Robin made an announcement about the upcoming release of wxWidgets 2.8 
> next week on wxpython-dev, but I thought that 2.8 Release Candidate 
> (RC) testing merited an extra call for help on wxPython-users as well.
>
> So, if you're good at making programs crash, implode, or otherwise 
> freak out, we need your help! :-) We're on the last stretch for 2.8, 
> and particularly as it is going to be included in the default install 
> of OS X 10.5, Leopard, we'd like it to be as solid and slick as 
> possible. So if you have apps, frameworks, scripts, or one-liners 
> written using wx, we would appreciate any time you could spend testing 
> them with the 2.8 RC. Even if it's just 15 minutes, or with one 
> script, or testing the demo... every little bit helps. We probably 
> won't get to everything reported before the release, but it's better 
> to find all the issues we can, so we can at least prioritize and fix 
> the really nasty ones.
>
> Oh, and if you don't mind fixing bugs too, well, I promise we won't 
> complain! :-)
>
> The wxPython 2.8 RC can be found here:
>
> http://wxpython.wxcommunity.com/preview/20061129/
>
> Thanks!
>
> Kevin
>
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