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What's New in Idle 3.4.4?
=========================
-*Release date: 2015-??-??*
+*Release date: 2015-12-20*
+
+- Issue 15348: Stop the debugger engine (normally in a user process)
+ before closing the debugger window (running in the IDLE process).
+ This prevents the RuntimeErrors that were being caught and ignored.
+
+- Issue #24455: Prevent IDLE from hanging when a) closing the shell while the
+ debugger is active (15347); b) closing the debugger with the [X] button
+ (15348); and c) activating the debugger when already active (24455).
+ The patch by Mark Roseman does this by making two changes.
+ 1. Suspend and resume the gui.interaction method with the tcl vwait
+ mechanism intended for this purpose (instead of root.mainloop & .quit).
+ 2. In gui.run, allow any existing interaction to terminate first.
+
+- Change 'The program' to 'Your program' in an IDLE 'kill program?' message
+ to make it clearer that the program referred to is the currently running
+ user program, not IDLE itself.
+
+- Issue #24750: Improve the appearance of the IDLE editor window status bar.
+ Patch by Mark Roseman.
+
+- Issue #25313: Change the handling of new built-in text color themes to better
+ address the compatibility problem introduced by the addition of IDLE Dark.
+ Consistently use the revised idleConf.CurrentTheme everywhere in idlelib.
+
+- Issue #24782: Extension configuration is now a tab in the IDLE Preferences
+ dialog rather than a separate dialog. The former tabs are now a sorted
+ list. Patch by Mark Roseman.
+
+- Issue #22726: Re-activate the config dialog help button with some content
+ about the other buttons and the new IDLE Dark theme.
- Issue #24820: IDLE now has an 'IDLE Dark' built-in text color theme.
It is more or less IDLE Classic inverted, with a cobalt blue background.
Strings, comments, keywords, ... are still green, red, orange, ... .
- Selecting it displays the following warning and solution.
- "IDLE Dark is new in October, 2015. Trying to run earlier versions
- of IDLE with it selected will disable colorizing, or worse.
- If you might ever run an earlier release of IDLE, then before
- exiting this version, either switch to another theme or hit the
- 'Save as New Custom Theme' button. The latter requires a new name,
- such as 'Custom Dark', but the custom theme will work with any IDLE
- release, and can be modified."
+ To use it with IDLEs released before November 2015, hit the
+ 'Save as New Custom Theme' button and enter a new name,
+ such as 'Custom Dark'. The custom theme will work with any IDLE
+ release, and can be modified.
- Issue #25224: README.txt is now an idlelib index for IDLE developers and
- curious users. The previous user content is now in the IDLE doc and is
- redundant. IDLE now means 'Integrated Development and Learning Environment'.
+ curious users. The previous user content is now in the IDLE doc chapter.
+ 'IDLE' now means 'Integrated Development and Learning Environment'.
- Issue #24820: Users can now set breakpoint colors in
Settings -> Custom Highlighting. Original patch by Mark Roseman.
- Issue #24972: Inactive selection background now matches active selection
- background, as configured by user, on all systems. Found items are now
+ background, as configured by users, on all systems. Found items are now
always highlighted on Windows. Initial patch by Mark Roseman.
- Issue #24570: Idle: make calltip and completion boxes appear on Macs
@@ -42,7 +68,7 @@ What's New in Idle 3.4.4?
* Give code snippet a very Sphinx-like light blueish-gray background.
* Re-use initial width and height set by users for shell and editor.
* When the Table of Contents (TOC) menu is used, put the section header
- at the top of the screen.
+ at the top of the screen.
- Issue #25225: Condense and rewrite Idle doc section on text colors.
@@ -68,9 +94,6 @@ What's New in Idle 3.4.4?
- Issue #24199: Deprecate unused idlelib.idlever with possible removal in 3.6.
-- Issue #24782: In Idle extension config dialog, replace tabs with sorted list.
- Patch by Mark Roseman.
-
- Issue #24790: Remove extraneous code (which also create 2 & 3 conflicts).
- Issue #23672: Allow Idle to edit and run files with astral chars in name.