IDLE: path browser unusable on some displays

@terryjreedy

BPO	37041
Nosy	@terryjreedy, @aroberge
Superseder	bpo-31552: IDLE: Convert browsers to use ttk.Treeview
Files	path_browser_problem.png: screen capture showing the problem

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assignee = 'https://github.com/terryjreedy'
closed_at = <Date 2021-06-03.16:23:21.025>
created_at = <Date 2019-05-25.10:26:20.340>
labels = ['3.8', 'expert-IDLE', 'type-bug', '3.7']
title = 'IDLE: path browser unusable on some displays'
updated_at = <Date 2021-06-03.16:23:21.025>
user = 'https://github.com/aroberge'

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activity = <Date 2021-06-03.16:23:21.025>
actor = 'aroberge'
assignee = 'terry.reedy'
closed = True
closed_date = <Date 2021-06-03.16:23:21.025>
closer = 'aroberge'
components = ['IDLE']
creation = <Date 2019-05-25.10:26:20.340>
creator = 'aroberge'
dependencies = []
files = ['48355']
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 37041
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message_count = 3.0
messages = ['343466', '343532', '343543']
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nosy_names = ['terry.reedy', 'aroberge']
pr_nums = []
priority = 'normal'
resolution = 'duplicate'
stage = 'resolved'
status = 'closed'
superseder = '31552'
type = 'behavior'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue37041'
versions = ['Python 3.7', 'Python 3.8']

On my computer (Windows 10, screen resolution 3000 x 2000, scaling of text and other elements set at 200% as the recommended value), the path browser is essentially unusable as the items overlap each other. See the attached image.

I found that changing the following:

    def draw(self, x, y):
        # XXX This hard-codes too many geometry constants!
        dy = 40  # changed from 20

in tree.py solved the problem.

Another reason to replace IDLE's custom tree widget with hard-coded constants with ttk.Treeview.

I am closing this because I believe that bpo-31552 will solve this problem. For an initial check, run the following test code, extracted from
https://tkdocs.com/tutorial/tree.html
Click the [+] buttons. I am curious whether commenting out the fix_scaling call makes any difference.

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import tkinter as tk
from tkinter import ttk
from idlelib.run import fix_scaling

root = tk.Tk()
tree = ttk.Treeview(root)
tree.pack()
fix_scaling(root)

tree.insert('', 'end', 'widgets', text='Widget Tour')
tree.insert('', 0, 'gallery', text='Applications')
id = tree.insert('', 'end', text='Tutorial')
tree.insert('widgets', 'end', text='Canvas')
tree.insert(id, 'end', text='Tree')

root.mainloop()

I ran the example you gave and it worked perfectly.

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aroberge commented on May 25, 2019

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