[Chimera-users] Chimera quits when IDLE window closed

Hi Mark, Yeah, in fact, in all daily builds (Mac, Windows, Linux) Chimera closes when you close the IDLE (Python shell) window. This is a problem introduced by updating from Python 2.5 to 2.6, not a Mac Cocoa problem. It is default IDLE behavior to raise SystemExit when it closes and Chimera has to do something special to avoid that bad behavior. The special Chimera fix for that used by older Chimera versions no longer works. http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/trac/chimera/ticket/8153 Tom

The 64-bit cocoa build also seems to die whenever you close an IDLE window.