Re: [Visualpython-users] VPython standalone installation

[Arthur <aj...@op...>]

> Has anyone had any experience in making distributable VPython programs (a
> single exe in windows)? I've tried the Mcmillan and py2exe installers with
> out much luck. The Mcmillan installer makes the .exe file which dies as
> soon as it is run (I'm using the stonehenge example for testing). Py2exe
> won't even compile (from the error messages I'd guess its a 2.3 problem
not
> Vpython).

Good news and bad news.

Good news - it's quite achievable.

At:

http://www.dstoys.com/content/education/index_html/Visual%20Arts/Interactive

is a proof of concept using the Vpythons Towers of Hanoi demo.

Bad news:

I did it some time ago, and lost the trail of exactly how I did it.  I do
seem to remember that a necessary trick was renaming the __init__.py file in
the visual directory to visual.py.  I think you can unzip the exe included
in the sample above and see its contents - which should give you some good
clues.  I'll look closer if and whn I get a chance, and see what memeories I
can recover.

Art