[Eric] Eric Digest, Vol 44, Issue 14

[Christian Prinoth]

Thanks Larry. Just another quick question: if I install the carbon 32
bit qt libraries, and the all dependencies for Eric in order, will it
work fine with the 64 bit Python that comes stock on Snow Leopard?

Chris

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 19:25,  <eric-request at riverbankcomputing.com> wrote:
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> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:50:15 -0700
> From: Larry Shaffer <larrys at dakotacarto.com>
> To: <eric at riverbankcomputing.com>
> Subject: Re: [Eric] Eric4 on Mac Os X, problem with highlighting boxes
> Message-ID: <C7983FE7.A1CA%larrys at dakotacarto.com>
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> Hi Christian,
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> See my post yesterday that outlines this problem:
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>  Weird Eric4 Editor Font Spacing and Highlighting
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> It happens when you install the Cocoa-only version of Qt 4.6.1
> (qt-mac-cocoa-opensource-4.6.1.dmg), which also happens when installing via
> MacPorts. If you download the qt-mac-opensource-4.6.1.dmg version of Qt,
> which still has Carbon code, eric should work correctly. This appears to be
> a problem with the underlying QScintilla Qt widget that eric uses for its
> editors, and only appears to be a problem with Macs at this time.
>
> http://get.qt.nokia.com/qt/source/qt-mac-opensource-4.6.1.dmg
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> This explains the differences between the Qt installs:
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> http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.6/developing-on-mac.html
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> but not why the problem might be happening. I have posted to the QScintilla
> list about this issue.
>
> --
> Larry
>
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>> From: Christian Prinoth <christian at prinoth.name>
>> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:01:02 +0100
>> To: <eric at riverbankcomputing.com>
>> Subject: [Eric] Eric4 on Mac Os X, problem with highlighting boxes
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>> Hi, I just installed Eric 4.0.4 on Mac Os X 10.6.2, using default
>> system python. I get a weird display problem: the editor shows ?boxes?
>> around words if one clicks on them. What happens is that these boxes
>> are somewhat off to the right, and if I click on those words, the
>> whole line shifts to the right to fit into the boxes. Anyone else
>> notice this?
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