App start failed on macOS 11.1 big sur

[madmadcat]

It works on Windows but my macOS.

heres are error messages

  File "/Users/doyouhike/project/WANDTEC/Tools/SignalIntegrity-master/SignalIntegrity/App/SignalIntegrityApp.py", line 1097, in main
    SignalIntegrityApp(projectFileName,external=external)
  File "/Users/doyouhike/project/WANDTEC/Tools/SignalIntegrity-master/SignalIntegrity/App/SignalIntegrityApp.py", line 326, in __init__
    self.UpdateRecentProjectsMenu()
  File "/Users/doyouhike/project/WANDTEC/Tools/SignalIntegrity-master/SignalIntegrity/App/SignalIntegrityApp.py", line 453, in UpdateRecentProjectsMenu
    self.FileMenu.entryconfigure(1,state='disabled')
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/tkinter/__init__.py", line 2933, in entryconfigure
    return self._configure(('entryconfigure', index), cnf, kw)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/tkinter/__init__.py", line 1476, in _configure
    self.tk.call(_flatten((self._w, cmd)) + self._options(cnf))
_tkinter.TclError: unknown option "-state"

And I've tried to comment line 452 to line 455 in SingalIntegrityApp.py

        if all(r is None for r in recentFileList):
            self.FileMenu.entryconfigure(1,state='disabled')
        else:
            self.FileMenu.entryconfigure(1,state='normal')

the App start normally.

[PetePupalaikis]

Interesting. My understanding is that tkinter does not work properly on macOS. It would be good to know if, after commenting out those lines, whether the whole application runs on the mac.

[adamtec]

Hey Pete, I can confirm that if the state parameter is removed, then the app works fine on MacOS.

[PetePupalaikis]

Interesting. is it just this one place? or are there others? If you can identify all of the places, I'd be happy to make the change (maybe just wrap it in a try-catch, or do an os test prior to such lines.

Pete