Re: [Visualpython-users] Bug in Visual 5.1 on Vista when more than one window is opened

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

I don't recall ever seeing this. In both gas.py and graphtest.py a graph 
is involved, so it might be useful to try a multiple-window program such 
as waves.py or controls.py to verify that the problem has to do with 
multiple windows rather than graphs.

Despite it being a new laptop, it's worth seeing whether there's an 
update available for the graphics driver. What graphics hardware do you 
have?

Unfortunately, in the case of a laptop, the laptop manufacturer has to 
pull some difficult tricks to shoehorn everything in, so typically you 
have to get graphics driver updates from the laptop manufacturer rather 
than from the manufacturer of the graphics card, and there's a chance 
that the laptop manufacturer doesn't have the driver quite right.

Bruce Sherwood

Martin Gelfand wrote:
> I installed Visual 5.1 and Python 2.6 on a new laptop running (32-bit?) Vista and
> found that demo programs that opened more than one window behaved oddly.
> For example, gas.py did not display any spheres in the "gas box" but the
> velocity histogram was updating as expected. Remove the code which
> displays the histogram, then the colliding spheres appear as expected.
> Similar odd behavior occured with graphtest.py .
>
> Anyone else see this?
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> Thanks,
> Marty
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