[Visualpython-users] borked installation - recovery?

[Lenore H. <lh...@si...>]

I was being stupid and thought I could pull some of the color-sliders  
tricks into the regular controls package and have them for everything  
instead of having to copy and paste revised definitions all the time.   
After all, I could always re-install the controls.py and controls.pyc  
files if I mangled them irrepairably.  Maybe not.

I opened the package and just copied those to files back to the visual  
folder in site packages - replacing my mangled ones.  No dice.

I've wiped out Vpython and MacPython and reinstalled both.  Still no  
good.  Controls complains about a property not existing that I can  
plainly see in the code is defined.

Any suggestions for where the wrong definition continues to lurk?

Here's the error message.

     s1 = slider(pos=(-50,0,0), width=2, length=10, min=0, max=pi/4,  
value = 0.5, action=lambda: setangle(s1))
   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/ 
python2.6/site-packages/visual/controls.py", line 245, in __init__
     ctrl.__init__(self, args)
   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/ 
python2.6/site-packages/visual/controls.py", line 85, in __init__
     self.value = args['value']
   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/ 
python2.6/site-packages/visual/controls.py", line 283, in setvalue
     self.update(self.pos+self.axis*val*self.length/(self.max-self.min))
AttributeError: 'slider' object has no attribute 'axis'

I've tried it both with and without an explicit axis in the slider  
call to no avail.

TIA,
Lenore