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From: barry at scottbb.demon.co.uk (Barry Scott)
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Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 22:42:21 +0100
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Subject: Windows install has problems. Guido asked that I use this newsgroup to discus further
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Message-ID: <924039873.18221.0.nnrp-12.9e982a40@news.demon.co.uk>
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THis is Guido's reply to my comments that tcl80.dll is not found
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by IDLE on a default installation.
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> > > Running "IDLE (Python GUI)" reports that tcl80.dll is
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> > > not in my path then the shell comes up and I can
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> > > use Tkinter from the shell.
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> > >
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> > > Just in case this might be involved my Windows NT system
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> > > is on G: not C:.
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> >
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> > To solve this one, I think you'll have to edit your autoexec.bat to
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> > add the Tcl directory (containing that DLL) to the PATH variable. For
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> > various reasons I do not believe it is a good idea to copy the Tcl/Tk
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> > DLL files into the Python directory, nor do I think it is possible to
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> > reliably edit autoexec.bat in the installer. Instead, Tkinter.py
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> > imports a hack module, FixTk.py, which searches for tcl80.dll in a few
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> > places and then patches the PATH environment variable of the running
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> > process, but this is not failsafe either. :-(
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> It would be nice if I did not have to edit the path manually.
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> Suggest that the install edits the path or you use the registry
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> to find the tcl80.dll image.
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I wish I could. The installer is very stupid. Windows sucks :-(
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> 1) The PATH is a registry key on NT. I don't have an autoexec.bat,
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> isn't for MS-DOS compatibility only these days?
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No, it's still needed on Windows 98 and 98.
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> The machines PATH is in
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> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment
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> 2a) I notice that HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TclShell\shell\open\command
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> contains a default value which is how to run wish. e.g.
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> G:\PROGRA~1\Tcl\bin\wish80.exe "%1"
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> tcl80.dll is in the same dir as wish80.exe.
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> 2b)
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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SharedDlls
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> lists all the shared files on the system. There is an value
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> "G:\Program Files\Tcl\bin\tcl80.dll" with the date 0x0000001 against it.
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> 2c) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Scriptics\Tcl\8.0
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> contains the default value field with the data G:\PROGRA~1\Tcl
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> The DLL being in data + "\tcl80.dll".
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> BArry
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Please take it up on the newsgroup -- there are many people with
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similar interests and more understanding of Windows than I have!
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--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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