Fix for issue3559: No preferences menu in IDLE on OSX
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
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt b/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
index 0b6fa61..0f9fb70 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
*Release date: XX-XXX-2008*
+- Issue #3549: On MacOS the preferences menu was not present
+
- Issue #2665: On Windows, an IDLE installation upgraded from an old version
would not start if a custom theme was defined.
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/help.txt b/Lib/idlelib/help.txt
index 76cccf0..7bfd2ca 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/help.txt
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/help.txt
@@ -90,7 +90,10 @@
Configure IDLE -- Open a configuration dialog. Fonts, indentation,
keybindings, and color themes may be altered.
Startup Preferences may be set, and Additional Help
- Souces can be specified.
+ Sources can be specified.
+
+ On MacOS X this menu is not present, use
+ menu 'IDLE -> Preferences...' instead.
---
Code Context -- Open a pane at the top of the edit window which
shows the block context of the section of code
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/macosxSupport.py b/Lib/idlelib/macosxSupport.py
index 222abfc..279b1cc 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/macosxSupport.py
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/macosxSupport.py
@@ -89,7 +89,9 @@
###check if Tk version >= 8.4.14; if so, use hard-coded showprefs binding
tkversion = root.tk.eval('info patchlevel')
- if tkversion >= '8.4.14':
+ # Note: we cannot check if the string tkversion >= '8.4.14', because
+ # the string '8.4.7' is greater than the string '8.4.14'.
+ if map(int, tkversion.split('.')) >= (8, 4, 14):
Bindings.menudefs[0] = ('application', [
('About IDLE', '<<about-idle>>'),
None,