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I have not had the ability to test on Linux and OSX for a while and was sad to find pyBzEdit had ceased to work properly on these platforms. This is now fixed (superficially at least). I have been able to run pyBzEdit on Ubuntu 10.10 and have worked out some problems on OSX as well. All you need for this program to work on ANY platform is: 1. Python, 2. wxPython and 3. PyOpenGL. I will be putting out a new '
binary' release for 32 bit windows soon. If there is any interest I would be happy to put together quick guides on how to set up this application on each platform.

I installed it on a clean virtual machine and it did not work! It appears that you need to install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable. Once that was done pyBzEdit worked fine. Just google for the Redist and download and install it from Microsoft. After this all three versions ran fine on my 32bit XP virtual machine (with a recent java run time installed).

I know you are out there. So my question is this:
Does it work in your environment? Have you found bugs? Any success stories as well problem reports/bugs would be very much appreciated. Just use the Help Forum and post your comments.

Thanks!

David

I created a new cpython 'binary' for 32 bit windows using cx_freeze. You can unzip this anywhere and run it by double clicking on the pyBzEdit.exe contained in the pyBzEdit folder. Any feedback is welcome (use the help forum).

I have spent a good deal of time 'playing' with the three different versions: cpython/wx/pyopengl, ironpython/winforms/opentk, and jython/swing/jogl. Based on my experience with their compatibility (or lack thereof) when run on linux and also on their performance, I am thinking of abandoning the Ironpython and jython versions before moving ahead with more features. Any feedback would be welcome...just post a message in the help forum.... read more

I zipped up the latest source and created a new IronPython binary. The cpython project should now run properly on Linux (Ubuntu at least). The IronPython version will now also run on Linux....but it exposes what I am guessing are several bugs in the Mono Windows.Forms implementation. Please leave feedback in the help forum...

I found that the cpython version did not run on ubuntu/linux and made several minor but painful changes to make the program compatible. The IronPython version MAY also run now as I removed the SyntaxBox component that did not work with Mono (p/Invokes - arg)! I'll be looking into this a bt more and then going back to working on features soon.