Re: [PyOpenGL-Users] I think I found an easy installation method for OpenGL.Tk on Windows

[Mike C. F. <mcf...@vr...>]

Ben Smith wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I wasn't able to find anything concrete about how to do this, but I 
> have something that seems to work.  Here's what I did to install Togl 
> in the tcl distribution that comes with windows python.
>
> Download Togl2.0-8.4-Windows.zip from sourceforge.
> Copy the folder lib\Togl2.0 from the zip file to your Python\tcl\ 
> directory, so it's Python\tcl\Togl2.0
>
> It's my understanding that the two important files for this are 
> Togl20.dll and pkgIndex.tcl, but I'm not an expert.
>
> That's it.  I already had pyopengl 3.0.0b6 installed.  I'm using 
> Python 2.6.  The very few samples I could find for OpenGL.Tk work so 
> far.  Python 2.6 on Windows is bundled with (and built against) 
> tcl/tk8.5, and it looks like Togl2.0 is built against 8.4.  Even my 
> mileage may vary.  I'm sharing this because it may help someone, or 
> someone may be able to point out problems with it. 
>
> Thanks,
> -b
There's a quickly hacked-together script in src/toglinstall/get_togl.py 
which attempts to download and install Togl for Win32 platforms.  It 
downloads the file and attempts to install them.  I haven't looked at it 
recently, however.

Take care,
Mike

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