Re: [Visualpython-users] Visual 5.0 release candidate now available

[Stef M. <s.m...@ru...>]

thanks for the great job Bruce.

A few problems:
- left-mouse click only seems to work on a box. When you click on 
"nothing" it returns None. When you click on something like a cylinder, 
you get a box returned, probably the box under the cyclinder, tested with
  if scene.mouse.clicked :
    click = scene.mouse.getclick ()
    print 'click',click.pick
- scene.show is not available (I only read that scene.cursor.visible was 
not available) and
because I embed VPython, I also can't close my program, because 
scene.hide doesn't work.

btw,
when you want / need to go back from VPython 5 to VPython 3,
what's the best way to achieve that ?
Or is it even better to make a copy of Python, before installing VPython 5 ?

cheers,
Stef

Bruce Sherwood wrote:
> At vpython.org there is now available the Visual 5.0 release candidate 
> for Windows, Intel Mac 10.5, and Linux. A version for PowerPC Mac is 
> forthcoming. The Mac version does not use X11 nor depend on Fink.
>
> This new version has been tested against a sizable suite of existing 
> programs, but it is likely that wider use will identify bugs to be 
> fixed, so please report problems you may encounter.
>
> There remains a major component to be completed, which David Scherer is 
> working on. There are various significant problems with IDLE, with 
> particularly serious issues on the Mac (in fact, the MacPython IDLE has 
> major mouse handling problems, which you can sometimes overcome by 
> clicking in the title bar, and it doesn't even offer a configuration 
> menu option for IDLE). If you find problems with IDLE, as you will at 
> the very least on the Mac, you need not report them, as this is being 
> worked on.
>
> Visual 5.0 was created by David Scherer and Bruce Sherwood. Jonathan 
> Brandmeyer provided support in Visual 4beta for opacity, local lighting, 
> and textures, and made some important architectural changes, but had to 
> stop work on the project before it was completed.  Further development 
> has led to API changes which are incompatible with the Visual 4beta 
> release, so this release is called version 5 instead of 4.
>
> The late Arthur Siegel implemented dependence on the currently supported 
> numpy library in place of Numeric, which is no longer supported. Hugh 
> Fisher provided a big start on the native-mode Mac version. Michael 
> Temkine fixed some bugs and implemented keyboard handling for Windows.
>
> Previous to Visual 4beta, Jonathan Brandmeyer made several major 
> contributions to Visual 3, including changing the connection between 
> Python and C++ from CXX, which was no longer supported, to the Boost C++ 
> libraries, and implementing auto-configurable installations for Linux.
>
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