The new idlelib/idle.html is copied from Doc/build/html/idle.html.
It looks better than help.txt and will better document Idle as released.
The tkinter html viewer that works for this file was written by Rose Roseman.
The new code is in idlelib/help.py, a new file for help menu classes.
The now unused EditorWindow.HelpDialog class and helt.txt file are deprecated.
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r88003 | ned.deily | 2011-01-14 20:37:12 -0800 (Fri, 14 Jan 2011) | 5 lines
#10907: Warn OS X 10.6 IDLE users to use ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.5,
rather than the currently problematic Apple-supplied one,
when running with the 64-/32-bit installer variant.
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r87394 | georg.brandl | 2010-12-19 02:10:32 -0800 (Sun, 19 Dec 2010) | 1 line
#6075: make idle work with both Carbon AquaTk and Cocoa AquaTk. Patch by Kevin Walzer and Ned Deily.
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r87119 | ronald.oussoren | 2010-12-07 16:28:10 +0100 (Tue, 07 Dec 2010) | 2 lines
Fix for issue #10107: Without this patch IDLE on OSX doesn't warn about unsaved files when quitting.
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The previous implementation used execv(2) to run the real interpreter, which means that
you cannot use the arch(1) tool to select the architecture you want to use for a
universal build because that only affects the python/pythonw wrapper and not the actual
interpreter.
The new version uses posix_spawnv with a number of OSX-specific options that ensure that
the real interpreter is started using the same CPU architecture as the wrapper, and that
means that 'arch -ppc python' now actually works.
I've also changed the way that the wrapper looks for the framework: it is now linked to
the framework rather than hardcoding the framework path. This should make it easier to
provide pythonw support in tools like virtualenv.
1) Add a comment to the help file to that points to the
preferences menu.
2) An earlier checkin tried to detect Tk >= 8.10.14,
but did this in the wrong way. The end result of this
was that the IDLE->Preferences... menu got surpressed
when using the system version of Tcl/Tk
Terry Jan Reedy
Ned Deily
Ezio Melotti
Ronald Oussoren
Florent Xicluna
Guilherme Polo
Georg Brandl
Tim Peters