[Visualpython-users] New stuff

[Bruce S. <ba...@an...>]

Dave Scherer just implemented some useful new features in Visual:

display.lights and display.ambient let you control lighting of the scene.

display.objects is a list of all the currently visible objects in the
scene. You can loop through them to make them all red, for example.

object.__class__ tells you what kind of object it is.

object.__members__ gives you a list of all the attributes of this object.

The new documentation includes instructions on how to use these new
features.

You can get the new features for Windows at the usual place:

	http://cil.andrew.cmu.edu/projects/visual

First you have to install Python 2.0 (see directions on the web site). Our
experience so far is that uninstalling Python 1.5.2 on Windows and
installing Python 2.0 is utterly painless. As a result, we will only be
supporting Visual on Python 2.0.

No Linux or Mac versions yet.

Bruce Sherwood

P.S. Thanks, Dave!