Re: [Visualpython-users] install glitch and some code

[kirby u. <kir...@gm...>]

Thank you for your advice re scene.select().

I do not bill myself as a VPython expert and tips such as yours are
a primary reason why I joined this list.

For more context regarding what my class setup is like,
here's a link to my Martian Math table of contents:

http://www.4dsolutions.net/satacad/martianmath/toc.html
(you'd find some embedded Visual code)

Also, I've done a fairly sophisticated intro to rendering vs. real time
computer graphics for a course I called Pythonic Math:

http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/pymath.html
(viztoyz.py was the VPython module)

Kirby Urner
Portland, Oregon

PS:  I note 'Reply to' is set to your address, not to the
list.  Will adjust my reflexes accordingly.


8D/4D

On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Bruce Sherwood <bas...@nc...> wrote:

> If you do get the error again, I'd appreciate seeing what is reported
> in the Shell window. Thanks.
>
> A very minor point: Perhaps it's there for a pedagogical purpose, but
> "scene.select()" isn't necessary in your program, because the way the
> Visual module works is that the most recent display creation governs
> where objects will go. You only need scene.select() in a situation
> where you have multiple displays and you want to switch to one that is
> different from the currently active one.
>
> Bruce
>
> On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 10:20 AM, kirby urner <kir...@gm...>
> wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Bruce Sherwood <bas...@nc...>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> This is an unfamiliar problem. Was this with Python 2.7 or 3.1? It is
> >> normal that in site-packages you'll see a folder FontTools (with an
> >> uppercase F), and inside that folder you'll see a folder fontTools
> >> (with a lowercase f) plus some other files. You should also see in
> >> site-packages a file FontTools.pth.
> >>
> >
> > Win7 / Python 2.7
> > Oh, so that's normal.
> > I thought because the inner folder with the __init__.py was that deep
> that
> > it wasn't found on the search path, and indeed it was not as when I tried
> > to run the code posted above, it crashed for not finding some fonttools
> > stuff.  When I moved the subdirectly to a higher level, it worked.
> > I didn't think to look at site-packages for a FontTools.pth.  I should do
> > some more analysis and get back to ya.
> >
> >>
> >> Could you perhaps uninstall and reinstall VPython and then report on
> >> what you see in site-packages? A test that all is working properly is
> >> to run the example program text3D.py, which uses the FontTools module
> >> (and others) to produce 3D text.
> >>
> >> Bruce Sherwood
> >>
> >
> > Yes I will do that.  Thanks for the reply.
> > Kirby
> >
> >
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