[wxPython-users] Using color names on Windows vs. Linux

[Robin Dunn]

Stefan Reichör wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'd like to use some colors in global python variables. The colors are
> correctly defined on linux. On Windows they are wrong after the
> "import wx" statement. They are valid after I have created an
> application object. I use wxPython2.8.1.1 on Windows.
> 
> I think this behaviour is a bug.

The color database object used to translate names to colors is not 
initialized until the App object is created.  (Actually you're lucky 
that the only problem you get is a bad color value, and not a crash.) 
IIRC the color name lookup was recently changed on wxGTK to use a 
different technique so that is why it happens to be working for you 
there, although I thought that the color database was still involved 
somehow...


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