Re: [Visualpython-users] controls slider not working in Win XP Tablet Edition

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

Let's hope that someone else has run across this problem, but it sounds 
completely unfamiliar. My own first thought was that it is necessary to update 
the graphics driver, but since you managed to get everything to function with 
your workaround, that doesn't seem likely.

There's nothing particularly special about sliders -- they just process mouse 
events. You might try narrowing the scope of the problem by playing with a copy 
of the module controls.py (in C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\visual), inserting 
debugging print statements at critical points. And I would think you should see 
problems with any program that does mouse drags, such as the example program 
toroid_drag.py or colorsliders.py. The latter program has slider-like devices 
but doesn't import controls.

Bruce Sherwood

Parker Swanson wrote:
> Hello VPython community,
> 
> Maybe somebody can point me toward a solution to our problem: our College has acquired a number of HP EliteBook 2730p Tablet PC's with "Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 Version 2002 Service Pack 3" installed. We want to use the machines to develop and run VPython programs. But I find that some of the objects in visual.controls don't work: for example, the slider. (This was observed with the supplied controlstest.py program as well as a program I wrote.)
> 
> As a temporary work-around, I found that if I install a virtualization platform such as VMWare Server 1.0.9 or VirtualBox, then build a Win XP Professional VM, and install Python 2.6.2 and VPython-Win-Py2.6-5.12.exe within the VM, VPython including the visual.controls objects (including the sliders) work just fine in the VM.
> 
> Question: Is there any published patch for Visual 5 which would allow all the controls to work in the Win XP Tablet OS? (Possibly if I have time I'll look into the source code myself...).
> 
> Thanks!
> par...@li... 
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