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cannot see text in interpreter box - firefox 3, ubuntu under vmware #146

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
(copied from report on crunchy-discuss)
Problem:  I cannot see the text in the crunchy interpreter boxes.

Installation:  Ubuntu 8.04 running as a virtual machine under Vmware
workstation 5 under Vista Ultimate x64.

Browser: Firefox 3

Crunchy: crunchy-0.9.9.1

Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Apr 21 2008, 11:17:30)
[GCC 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)] on linux2

Original issue reported on code.google.com by andre.ro...@gmail.com on 14 Jul 2008 at 10:39

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
>this is likely going to be a tough one for us to track as I don't
> think any of us has a computer running Vista.

not sure if it's Vista necessarily, maybe primarily an artifact of vmare/ubuntu.

>Just to make sure I understand: when you click inside an interpreter
>>box (the one-liner), and try to type some text in it, you can't see
>anything... right?  (See below for other possible description...)

Correct.  The text (and cursor) within the one-liner box is invisible.
Also, when I click on the editor pad icon to expose the textbox, nothing is 
visible.
 Additionally, the text that I type, while invisible, is communicated because when I
hit carriage return, the text is interpreted and executed.

>Alternatively, load inside Firefox 3
>http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tag_input.asp
>and see if you can enter text in the input boxes.
I did and I can enter text.

>A couple of simple suggestions come to mind:
>1. Try with a different browser (safari?) if you can.
I'll have install and run it under wine.

>did Crunchy work for you using Vista
>ultimate x64 (and Firefox 3)?
I don't have python installed on vista, guess I'll try that route.

Thanks,
Dev.

Original comment by devc...@gmail.com on 15 Jul 2008 at 12:50

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Thanks for the additional info.  Perhaps others will find a solution; if not, I 
will
try to install vmware fusion on my mac in about 10 days - there is a 30 day 
trial but
I will be leaving in 2 days for a week and it would be a waste to try to get it 
now.

Original comment by andre.ro...@gmail.com on 15 Jul 2008 at 1:07

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
False alarm ... I tracked it down.

First of all, sincere apologies for false alarm, second, thanks very much for 
your
responsiveness.

Solution:
=========
I modified my "Appearances Preferences" in Ubuntu from "High Contrast Inverse" 
back
to "Clearlooks" and voila, I can see the text.

The clue for me was that the keyboard entries were being recognized, but I just
couldn't see them. So it had to do with the contrast/color overlays.  The 
previous
vmware/ubuntu related bug ie the mouse not being able to scroll, was real and 
somehow
obfuscated things in my mind.

Looking forward to learning python interactively with crunchy. Thanks for your
efforts to create this tool.

Sincerely,
Dev.

Original comment by devc...@gmail.com on 15 Jul 2008 at 1:39

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Not a Crunchy issue after all; changing status to invalid.

Original comment by andre.ro...@gmail.com on 15 Jul 2008 at 10:46