blacklight3-gui fails to start

[Peter]

Running Kubuntu 8.10 intrepid
Running blacklight3-gui from terminal gives these errors ...
$ blacklight3-gui
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/blacklight3-gui", line 132, in <module>
    app = model.Application(MyBackground)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/PythonCard/model.py", line 365, in __init__
    wx.App.__init__(self, 0)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/wx-2.6-gtk2-unicode/wx/_core.py", line 7700, in __init__
    self._BootstrapApp()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/wx-2.6-gtk2-unicode/wx/_core.py", line 7352, in _BootstrapApp
    return _core_.PyApp__BootstrapApp(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/PythonCard/model.py", line 417, in OnInit
    self._initBackgrounds(self.resource)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/PythonCard/model.py", line 410, in _initBackgrounds
    bg = self.frameClass(None, bgRsrc)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/PythonCard/model.py", line 640, in __init__
    self._initLayout(aBgRsrc.components)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/PythonCard/model.py", line 954, in _initLayout
    self.components[rsrc.name] = rsrc
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/PythonCard/model.py", line 98, in __setitem__
    control = component.ComponentFactory().createComponent(self.parent, self.parent.panel, item)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/PythonCard/component.py", line 302, in createComponent
    component = clazz( aParent, aResource )
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/PythonCard/components/button.py", line 60, in __init__
    widget.Widget.__init__(self, aParent, aResource)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/PythonCard/widget.py", line 75, in __init__
    self._setForegroundColor(self._resource.foregroundColor)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/PythonCard/widget.py", line 125, in _setForegroundColor
    self.SetForegroundColour( aColor )
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/wx-2.6-gtk2-unicode/wx/_core.py", line 9524, in SetForegroundColour
    return _core_.Window_SetForegroundColour(*args, **kwargs)
TypeError: Expected a wxColour object or a string containing a colour name or '#RRGGBB'.

[Peter (jynyl)]

See also Ubuntu forums ...
http://www.uluga.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=990335

[ChrisLees (christopher-lees)]

I'm investigating this issue. Looks like we discovered it at the same time, as I haven't used Blacklight for a while!

In the meanwhile, the command-line client still works:

blacklight3 <input_file1> [input_file2 [...]]

or see the man page for blacklight3.

[ChrisLees (christopher-lees)]

Fixed - please upgrade to blacklight3-gui 0.1.1: http://launchpad.net/blacklight/trunk/0.1.2/+download/blacklight3-gui_0.1.1-1_all.deb

[Peter (jynyl)]

Thanks - it now starts and presents a gui.

But then it gets stuck in a loop
- request password
- select Walkman dev
- request password
- select Walkman dev
- request password
- select Walkman dev
and so on

Could be a loop bug here?