Hi, I have the same problem. Can it be caused by an error in the startup. In Eric settings folder user\_eric4 there is an error log file with <br><br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <br>
2008-04-10, 22:22:10 <br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <br><type 'exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError'>: <br>'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe4' in position 10: ordinal not in range(128) <br>
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <br> File "C:\python25\Lib\site-packages\eric4\eric4.pyw", line 8, in <module> <br> main() <br> File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\eric4\eric4.py", line 234, in main <br>
mainWindow = UserInterface(loc, splash, pluginFile) <br> File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\eric4\UI\UserInterface.py", line 530, in __init__ <br> self.__readTasks() <br> File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\eric4\UI\UserInterface.py", line 3643, in __readTasks <br>
parser.parse(f) <br> File "C:\Python25\lib\xml\sax\expatreader.py", line 107, in parse <br> xmlreader.IncrementalParser.parse(self, source) <br> File "C:\Python25\lib\xml\sax\xmlreader.py", line 119, in parse <br>
self.prepareParser(source) <br> File "C:\Python25\lib\xml\sax\expatreader.py", line 111, in prepareParser <br> self._parser.SetBase(source.getSystemId()) <br><br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <br>
Version Numbers: <br> Python 2.5.1 <br> Qt 4.3.3 <br> PyQt4 4.3.3 <br> sip sip version not available <br> QScintilla 2-snapshot-20071223 <br> eric4 4.1.2 (r2105) <br><br>Platform: win32 <br>2.5.1 (r251:54863, Apr 18 2007, 08:51:08) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] <br>
<br>This seems to be a problem with the scandinavian letters (\xe4 == ä == is the a with dots above) in directory names or file names. My _eric4 folder is in a path with scandinavian letters in the name. Should have known better of course... <br>
<br>- Lauri