Re: [Visualpython-users] Visualpython-users Digest, Vol 31, Issue 9

[Bruce S. <Bru...@nc...>]

Thanks for the report. A colleague with a desktop Mac and Radeon X1900 
also doesn't get materials like wood to display, despite his drivers 
seeming to be up to date. Presumably you see transparent objects, and 
local lights, but no materials.

Cmd-q quits, but I guess we forgot cmd-w.

What's an example of a trackpad fingertip gesture that is not processed? 
(Not sure what we can do about it, but it would be good to know what the 
issue is.)

Remember that IDLE is a known problem. It's not really a VPython 
problem, but as I mentioned before, David Scherer is working on it anyway.

In Spring 2000 when Scherer was creating VPython, he also took the 
rather rudimentary IDLE then packaged with Python and built it into 
something close to what you know today. It was further extended, 
including adding a configuration menu, by various other people. During 
this year while working on Visual 5, Scherer got more and more annoyed 
with various inconveniences that have crept in over the years, and he's 
trying to carry out a thorough house-cleaning. Our intent is to package 
this alternative IDLE with Visual 5, with the hope that it would be a 
candidate for replacing the existing Python IDLE. But even if that 
replacement doesn't happen, or doesn't happen for a while, we'll be able 
to use either the standard one or Scherer's cleaned up one, which we're 
tentatively referring to as VIDLE for clarity. And of course it will 
have a configuration menu again.

Bruce Sherwood

Joe Heafner wrote:
> Good afternoon.
> 
> I just installed the new Visual 5 candidate on my MacBook Pro running OS 
> X 10.5.5 and an ATI Radeon X1600 graphics card and all seems to work 
> very well. I encountered the documented startup problem (Visual doesn't 
> run initially) and the fix on the website worked. This is a weird 
> problem! But once Visual runs my program work seemingly perfectly. I 
> note that graphics windows don't seem to respond to cmd-w, which should 
> close the current window. I also persistently get the message "Shader 
> would be emulated in software; disabling." message when running 
> texturetest.py. According to the Wikipedia article, my graphics card 
> should support PS3.0. IDLE under MacPython 2.5.2 has no configuration 
> options. Windows don't respond to the trackpad fingertip gestures either.
> 
> Joe Heafner