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Installation and License Questions / Re: atkpython interactive mode Windows 8.1 font color is set to background

« on: October 17, 2014, 09:55 »

Thank you for your response. I am, somewhat egoistically, glad to know that this is not a common behavior (while I understand that this makes it quite difficult to find its origin):  this lets me keeping the installation instructions for local users simple and dealing with the problem on the individual basis.

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Installation and License Questions / atkpython interactive mode Windows 8.1 font color is set to background

« on: October 16, 2014, 22:07 »

I'm not sure this is technically an installation problem but probably I'm not too off.

atkpython in freshly installed ATK 2014 doesn't work properly on my Windows 8.1 in the interactive mode. For some reason it sets both the background and the "standard" text (e.g. input and output) to black. See the first attached image, where in a terminal window the results of running ipython (the "standard" text is white) and atkpython (the "standard" text is invisible) are compared.

Changing colors in the properties of the terminal window helps only temporarily. This is demonstrated in the second attached window. After entering  In [1]: kkk I've changed the Font color to cyanish, which led to appearance of the already existing text but newly entered text would still be invisible (the color is reverted to black). After In [2]: kkk I've changed the background color to blue. This, again, showed the text missing after the previous step but once I've got to In [3] the color again is reverted to black. Changing the property of the shortcut (say, of "Command line terminal" in the ATK program folder) doesn't solve the problem.

This behavior renders atkpython unusable in the interactive mode. At the same time in the normal mode everything is fine.

I've found a temporary workaround: using ConsoleZ with changed font color, which unifies all output color-wise. Some niceties are gone but at least I can use atkpython. It would be great, however, to find out how to deal with the initial problem, so to make atkpython available in any console window.