[Visualpython-users] Re: "WinPyVisual" complete

[Bruce S. <bas...@un...>]

This sounds pretty interesting, Arthur. Thanks for the research! I myself am
recovering from being sick for several days, so it will be a while before I
can play with your ideas.

Bruce Sherwood

----- Original Message -----
From: "Arthur" <ajs...@op...>
To: "Bruce Sherwood" <bas...@un...>; "vpusers"
<vis...@li...>
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 3:58 PM
Subject: "WinPyVisual" complete


> As a step towards an "all_in_one" Windows distribution of PyGeo, I have a
> draft of a working all_in_one version of VPython available.
>
> As it currently exists, it is a zip file of < 1.2 meg that can be unzipped
> anywhere in the directory tree. It includes a scaled down ScITE.  Fire up
> ScITE, go to the "demos" sub-directory, open up any of the usual  VPython
> demos - see proviso as to Tkinter below -  hit F5 and the demo will run.
No
> other python, Numeric, or other files (other than normally present Windows
> dlls) are assumed to be present on the machine.
>
> If a distribution along these lines is to be developed, it would be simple
> to do it using a simple Windows installer to add icons, start files,
> licenses, etc.
>
> Also, for demonstration purposes, I have available another zip file with a
> bounce2.exe file and the minimal support files it needs to run.
Doubleclick
> and the bounce2 demo runs. It was built using py2exe in conjunction with
> distutils. Bounce2.exe is about 200k and includes all the Python files
> (including a version of the interpreter itself) needed to run VPython
files,
> except for the following rquired dlls:
>
> python22.dll
> umath.pyd
> multiarray.pyd
> _numpy.pyd
> _sre.pyd
> cvisual.pyd
>
> What I think is potentially interesting about this facility, as a one
trick
> in the toolchest, is the ability to demonstrate one's work to others
without
> asking them to do anything major in terms of an installation on their
> machine.  Assuming they at least have access to a Windows machine, if they
> are given the above listed dlls in a directory, any VPython constructions
> then built as .exe will run as an executable from that directory.  I
include
> in the zip the simple required setup.py and a .bat file to run which -
> assuming one downloads py2exe (there is a Windows installer for it) - will
> create, with minimal editing,  an executable out of any VPython script.
>
> With Bruce's permission (and some instructions on how to do so) , I will
> make these files available.
>
> Art
>
> FWI, the PyGeo situation is a little more complicated in that it requires
> TkInter.  But its quite doable, just adds a little more bulk to the
> distribution.
>
> Do any of the VPython demos rely on Tk?  If so, those will not run
> successfully with the "distribution" in its present form.